28 November 1987: 160 people are killed when a Boeing 747 of South African Airlines on a Taipei-Johannesburg flight crashes into the sea off Mauritius.

19 September 1989: 170 people are killed when a UTA DC-10 explodes in mid-air over Niger's Tenere desert. The incident is blamed on a Libyan bomb attack.

26 September 1992: 158 people are killed when a Nigerian military transport plane goes down near Lagos, according to the official toll.

22 December 1992: 157 people are killed when a Libyan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on a domestic Benghazi-Tripoli flight.

1 July 1994: 94 people are killed when a Fokker 28 crashes on landing in the central Mauritanian town of Tidjikdja.

8 January 1996: More than 300 people are killed when an Antonov-32 comes down on a crowded market near the centre of the Zairean capital Kinshasa.

7 November 1996: 142 people are killed when a Boeing 727 owned by Nigeria's ADC airline plunges into a lagoon 85 kilometres (55 miles) from Lagos.

23 November 1996: 175 people are killed when a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing runs out of fuel over the Indian Ocean off the Comoro Islands. The plane was on an Addis Ababa-Nairobi-Abidjan flight when three Ethiopians hijacked it.

Source: Agence France Presse