A YAK-42 passenger plane carrying 45 people crashed Wednesday after taking off near central Russian city of Yaroslavl, killing at least 43 people aboard, said the Emergency Situations Ministry.

Since 2010, the world has seen a series of major aircraft catastrophes. They are listed as follows:

On July 9, 2011, an airliner crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as it tried to land in bad weather, killing 127 people aboard and injuring dozens.

On June 20, 2011, a Russian Tu-134 passenger plane crashed in heavy fog on a highway about 1 km away from the Petrozavodsk airport in northwestern Russia, killing 44 people and injuring eight others.

On Jan. 9, 2011, a Boeing-727 passenger jet of the state-owned Iran-Air airline crashed near the airport of the northwestern Iranian city of Uroumieh, killing 72 people, including 12 crew members, and injuring 28 others.

On Nov. 4, 2010, a ATR-72 turboprop plane carrying 68 people crashed in central Cuba, killing all aboard.

On Aug. 24, 2010, an ERJ-190 jet crashed near the runway of Lindu airport of Yichun in northeastern China, some 40 minutes after it took off from the neighboring city of Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province. Forty-two people were killed.

On July 28, 2010, an Airblue Flight ED-202 crashed into the Margalla Hills in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, killing all 152 people aboard.

On May 22, 2010, 158 people were killed when an Air India Express plane from Dubai overshot the runway during landing and crashed near Mangalore airport in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

On May 12, 2010, a passenger plane of Libya's Afriqiyah Airways crashed while landing at Tripoli airport, killing all 104 people on board except for an 8-year-old Dutch boy.

On April 10, 2010, 96 people aboard Polish President Lech Kaczynski's official Tupolev Tu-154 plane were killed in a crash near Smolensk airport in western Russia. The plane was carrying Kaczynski, his wife Maria and a large number of senior Polish officials.

On Jan. 25, 2010, an Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 people fell into the Mediterranean sea shortly after taking off from Lebanon's capital Beirut, killing everyone aboard.