The last time a large U.S. airline lost a plane in a fatal crash was an American Airlines Airbus A300 taking off from JFK in 2001.

Smaller airlines have had crashes since then. The last fatal U.S. crash was a Continental Express flight operated by Colgan Air, which crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y. on Feb. 12, 2009. The crash killed all 49 people on board and one man in a house.

Asia remains one of the fastest-growing regions for aviation in the world. Even with slowing economies in Japan and China, airlines there saw 3.7 percent more passengers than a year ago, according to the International Air Transport Association.

Finding enough experienced pilots to meet a growing number of flights is becoming a problem. A 2017 report by aircraft manufacturer Boeing said the industry would need 460,000 new commercial airline pilots in the next two decades -- with 185,000 of them needed in Asia alone.

"The Asia-Pacific region continues to present the largest projected growth in pilot demand," the report said.

综合外国媒体7月7日报道，一架从韩国首尔起飞的韩亚航空波音777客机6日在美国旧金山国际机场着陆时发生事故，造成至少2名中国女生死亡。乘客不得不从紧急充气滑梯逃生，至少182人送医，49人伤势严重。

根据韩亚航空发布的声明，机上共载有307人，其中乘客包括77名韩国人、141名中国人、61名美国人和1名日本人。而中国籍乘客中有1名教师和34名高中生。

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