FACTBOX: Major plane crashes involving Russia since 2000
(Reuters) - An Aeroflot Boeing 737-500 passenger plane crashed in Russia on Sunday killing all 88 people on board.
Russia has been trying to improve its aviation safety record. Below is a chronology on major plane crashes in Russia or involving Russian airlines since 2000.
2000
Oct 25 - An Il-18 military plane flying from Russia crashes on a Georgian mountainside, killing 82 people.
2001
July 3 - A Tu-154 passenger plane crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing all 145 people on board.
Oct 4 - A Russian Tu-154 flying from Israel plunges into the Black Sea, killing all 78 on board, after it is hit by a stray Ukrainian missile during live-fire exercises on the Crimean peninsula.
2002
July 1 - A Bashkirian Airlines Tu-154 airliner collides mid-air with a German cargo plane over south-west Germany, killing 71 people, including 52 children and teenagers.
July 28 - A Russian Il-86 airliner crashes on take-off at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. Fourteen dead.
August 19 - A military helicopter carrying more than 100 people crashes in Russia's rebellious region of Chechnya.
August 30 - All 16 people die when their An-28 crashes in a remote region of Russia's far east.
2003
March 1 - A light Czech-built L-410 aeroplane crashes about 180 km (110 miles) north of Moscow killing 11 out of 25 people on board.
2004
August 24 - Chechen suicide bombers blow up two passenger jets within minutes of each other after taking off from Moscow. A total of 89 people die.
2005
March 16 - An An-24 plane crashes in Russia's far north killing at least 28 of the 52 people on board.
2006
May 3 - An Armenian A-320 airliner crashes into the Black Sea off the Russian resort city of Sochi killing all 113 passengers and crew.
July 10 - An Airbus A-310 operated by Sibir Airlines overruns the runway at Irkutsk in Siberia and kills 122 people out of 204 passengers and crew.
Aug 22 - A Pulkovo airlines Tu-154 ploughs into a field in Ukraine en route to St Petersburg from the Black Sea resort of Anapa. At least 170 people die.
2007
March 17 - A Tu-134 airliner belonging to Utair crashes in heavy fog near the Volga city of Samara. Six out of the 57 people on board die.
July 29 - An An-12 cargo plane crashes on takeoff at Moscow's Domodedovo airport killing all seven crew members.
2008
May 26 - Nine crew members die when another An-12 cargo plane crashes near the city of Chelyabinsk in the Urals.
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(Writing by James Kilner in Moscow)
