Timeline: Europe's worst aviation accidents in the past 15 years
It is the worst in Spain for 23 years, when a February 1985 crash at Bilbao claimed 148 lives.
The worst aviation accident ever in Europe, and indeed in the world, remains the ground collision between two Boeing 747s at Spain's Tenerife airport on March 27, 1977 with 583 victims.
According to international statistics, however, Europe remains the safest continent on which to fly.
January 20, 1992: FRANCE - An Airbus belonging to French airline Air Inter crashes in the region of Mont Sainte-Odile near Strasbourg, killing 87.
March 31, 1995: ROMANIA - An Airbus belonging to Romanian air carrier Tarom crashes after take-off at Bucharest airport. Sixty people are killed.
July 25, 2000: FRANCE - An Air France Concorde headed to New York crashes while taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris: 113 die.
July 3, 2001: RUSSIA – About 145 people are killed when a Tupolev flight crashes near Irkutsk in Siberia.
October 8, 2001: ITALY – A total of 118 die in the collision of a MD-87 belonging to Scandinavian airline SAS and a private Cessna aircraft in the fog at Milan-Linate airport.
July 1, 2002: GERMANY - A collision between a Russian Tupolev and a DHL cargo plane near Ueberlingen over Lake Constance near the Swiss frontier killed 71 people.
January 8, 2003: TURKEY - A plane belonging to Turkish Airlines crashes on landing at Diyarbakir airport; 75 are killed.
May 26, 2003: TURKEY - A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near Trabzon in the northeast of the country with 75 people on board, including 62 Spanish soldiers. No survivors.
Aug 14, 2005: GREECE – One hundred twenty one people are killed when a Boeing belonging to Cypriot company Helios crashes near Athens.
May 3, 2006: RUSSIA - An Airbus belonging to Armenian company Armavia en route to Sochi crashes in the Black Sea; 113 die.
July 9, 2006: RUSSIA – About 124 are killed when a Russian Airbus crashes on landing at Irkutsk in Siberia.
Aug 22, 2006: UKRAINE – At least 170 are killed when a Russian Tupolev plane crashes in the east of the country.