The disaster is the third deadliest aircraft incident in aviation history (after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175), and is the deadliest accident in aviation history.[1][2][3][c]
The other two are the planes that hit the world trade center on 9/11.
I always understood disaster to be describing more of an accident, but obviously it can also describe a terror attack where someone intentionally crashes an airplane, fair enough.
Worst aviation disaster in history happened on the ground. Tenerife Airport disaster
The second sentence says it’s the third worst lol
Your own source says it’s the 3rd worst.
The other two are the planes that hit the world trade center on 9/11. I always understood disaster to be describing more of an accident, but obviously it can also describe a terror attack where someone intentionally crashes an airplane, fair enough.
Well if the attacks were only possible because of systemic shortcomings, it can be considered a disaster for sure.
Kind of disingenuous to say the World Trade Center planes count as “aviation disasters” in a discussion about accidental crashes.
It is considered the point in history when aviation acknowledged change was need for safe travel. Completely changed commerical air travel.