PARIS, June 30, 2009 (AFP) - After the crash of a Yemenia Airbus A310 on Tuesday in the Indian Ocean off the Comoros, with 153 passengers and crew on board, here is a run-down of some of the deadliest aviation disasters since 2003:
      
-- 2003 --      
- Feb 19: IRAN - An Iranian Ilyushin-76 military plane crashes near Kerman in the south east of the country killing 302.  
- May 8: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Some 200 people fall to their deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo when the door of their plane opens in mid-air.
      
-- 2004 --       
- Jan 3: EGYPT - A Boeing 737 belonging to Egyptian company Flash Airlines breaks up over the sea off the resort of Sharm El-Sheikh killing 148.
      
 -- 2005 --     
- Aug 16: VENEZUELA - 160 are killed in the crash of a McDonnell Douglas plane belonging to the Colombian company West Caribbean Airways at Maracaibo in the north of the country.      
- Sept 5: INDONESIA - 150 are killed as a Boeing 737-200 belonging to Mandala airlines crashes on the island of Sumatra.
      
-- 2006 --  
- July 9: RUSSIA - 124 are killed when an Airbus A310 aircraft belonging to Russian company Sibir crashes on landing at Irkutsk in Siberia.
- Aug 22: UKRAINE - 170 die when a Russian Tupolev plane crashes in eastern Ukraine.      
- Sept 29: BRAZIL - a Boeing 737 belonging to airline GOL crashes in the Amazonian forest with 155 people on board. No survivors.
      
--2007--      
- July 17: BRAZIL - An Airbus A320 belonging to TAM airline crashes into a freight warehouse occupied by several workers on landing at San Paulo airport with 187 people aboard. 199 die.
      
--2008--      
- Aug 20: SPAIN - A Spanair McDonnell Douglas-82, on a flight to the Canary Islands, crashes in Madrid airport minutes after take-off killing 154 people.
      
--2009-- 
- June 1: BRAZIL - An Airbus A330 belonging to Air France crashes into the Atlantic Ocean on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris killing 228 people.      
- June 30: COMOROS - A Yemeni Airbus A310 jet, carrying 153 people, crashes into stormy seas as it comes into land in the Comoros islands.
      
The most deadly plane accidents in history remain the collision on March 27, 1977, between two Boeing 747s at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, in which 583 are killed, and the crash on August 12, 1985 of a Boeing 747 belonging to Japan Airlines flying between Tokyo and Osaka when 520 were killed.