A plane with as many as 170 people aboard crashed and burst into flames in Sao Paulo on July 17 after skidding off a runway that has been criticized as being too short in a driving rain, the nation's airport authority said.

"The black box of the Adam Air that crashed into the sea and killed 102 people on New Year's Day will be lifted at the end of this month to find out the cause of the crash," Transport Minister Jusman Djamal said on July 16.

A light charter plane flying from Nairobi crashed near Kenya's southwestern national park of Masai Mara, killing a pilot and two passengers on July 3.

A four-passenger jet hit a high-tension power line in northern San Diego County on July 3, killing two people, officials said.

On July 10, five people have been confirmed dead after a small plane crashed in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida, U.S. media reported.

On June 25, search and rescue teams were combing a forest in southern Cambodia, looking for a passenger aircraft with 22 people on board that crashed earlier in the day while flying between two popular tourist destinations.

The South Korean government plans to dispatch officials on the next flight out of Seoul to Cambodia to deal with a plane crash in Cambodia following reports that 13 South Koreans were aboard the ill-fated plane, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said June 25.

A plane flying from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville in Cambodia possibly crashed on June 25, with 22 people onboard feared killed, source at the Siem Reap Airport told Xinhua.

Togolese Sports Minister Richard Attipoe was among the members of a delegation of sports officials from Togo killed aboard a passenger helicopter that crashed in Sierra Leone, officials said on June 4.

A helicopter ferrying passengers to Freetown airport in Sierra Leone has crashed, killing at least 20 people.