Part 10: Azerbaijan

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This plane crash takes us to the Asian country of Azerbaijan, which is located next to the following countries: Armenia, Iran, Russia and Georgia.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

 Pictured above is a similar type of airplane involved in this accident

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Pictured above is a similar type of airplane involved in this accident.

Aeroflot Flight A-13, registered as Charlie Charlie Charlie Papa-46435 (CCCP-46435), was a scheduled Soviet domestic passenger flight from Bina International Airport (IATA: GYD, ICAO: UBBB), Baku, Azerbaijan to Shevchenko Central International Airport (IATA: SCO, ICAO: UATE), Fort Shevchenko, Kazakhstan, which crashed on the 18th of August 1973 shortly after take off from Bina Airport, the crash killed 56 out of the 64 people on board the plane.

The Antonov AN-24, which was flying this route, had suffered an engine failure on takeoff and it was attempting to return to the airport when it struck an oil rig cable at a low altitude resulting in the crash, at the time it was the second worst accident to involve the An-24 and it remains the deadliest aviation accident in Azerbaijani history.

Just 30 feet (10 meters) above the runway, the An-24 suffered an uncontainable engine failure in it's left engine, at 90 feet (30 meters) the crew retracted the flaps and began to turn the plane, when it's left wing tip struck the cable of an oil rig in the Caspian Sea, which caused the wingtip and parts of the left wing to be shared off, then the plane descended, when it struck a pipeline. Before it crashed near a highway at 18:51MSK (Moscow Time).

The summary of the crash was struck a cable at low altitude after suffering an uncontained engine failure. 

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