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Air crash tally:

It said there were 16 crashes involving scheduled airliners around the world in 2011 with 330 fatalities.  The year’s worst crash was an Iran Air Boeing-727 that crashed January 9 during a snowstorm after it was turned away from the airport at Urumiyeh because of the bad weather.  A total of 78 of the 106 persons aboard were killed.  That was 24 percent of all those killed anywhere in the world aboard scheduled airliners.

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