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Tourists disembark a Yeti Airlines aircraft after its arrival in Nepal. Joern Bender /picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images
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A Tara Air aircraft on the runway at Tenzing Hillary Airport, Lukla, Nepal. Loop Images / UIG via Getty Images
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A Buddha Air Beechcraft 1900D aircraft taxis on the tarmac after landing at the international airport in Paro, Bhutan. Ed Jones / AFP
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A Nepal Airlines Airbus 320 parked inside Tribhuwan International airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha / AP Photo
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Trigana Air Service's ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane takes off at Supadio airport in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. AP Photo
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Tourists disembark a Yeti Airlines aircraft after its arrival in Nepal. Joern Bender /picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images
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Air Koryo of North Korea. EPA
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A Tara Air aircraft on the runway at Tenzing Hillary Airport, Lukla, Nepal. Loop Images / UIG via Getty Images
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A Buddha Air Beechcraft 1900D aircraft taxis on the tarmac after landing at the international airport in Paro, Bhutan. Ed Jones / AFP
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A Nepal Airlines Airbus 320 parked inside Tribhuwan International airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha / AP Photo
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Trigana Air Service's ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane takes off at Supadio airport in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. AP Photo
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Tourists disembark a Yeti Airlines aircraft after its arrival in Nepal. Joern Bender /picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images
World's least safe airlines 2018 revealed
AirlineRatings.com unveils its rankings for air safety. Click through the slideshow to see which carriers were rated one star
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07 January, 2018
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