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This plane crash takes us to the Asian country of Bahrain, which is located in the Gulf of Bahrain and the Persian Gulf and it's located near Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
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Pictured above is the wreckage of the plane.
Gulf Air Flight 072 (GF072/GFA072) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Cairo International Airport (IATA: CAI, ICAO: HECA) with a stopover at Bahrain International Airport (IATA: BAH, ICAO: OBBI) in Bahrain and at Oman's Seeb International Airport (IATA: MCT, ICAO: OOMS), operated by Gulf Air. On the 23rd of August 2000 at 19:30pm Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3), the Airbus A320 crashed minutes after executing a go-around following a failed attempt to land on Runway 12. The flight crew suffered from spatial disorientation during the go-around and crashed into the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf 2 km (1 nautical mile) from the airport. All 143 people on board the aircraft were killed in what remains the deadliest aviation accident in Bahraini and Gulf Air history, and was the deadliest accident involving an Airbus A320 at the time, which was later surpassed by TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (Crashed due to overrunning the runway due to pilot error), which crashed in São Paulo, Brazil, on the 17th of July 2007 with 199 fatalities.
The final report, issued on the 15th of August 2002, concluded that the individual factors contributing to the accident were non adherence to a number of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and loss of spatial and situational awareness by the aircraft crew during the approach and final phases of the flight. A number of systemic factors also contributed to the accident, including deficiency in crew resource management (CRM) training by Gulf Air and safety oversights by the Directorate General Of Civil Aviation and Meteorology of Oman.
Flight 072 was operated with an Airbus A320-212, registered as A4O-EK (Alpha 4 Oscar- Echo Kilo) with serial number 481. It was delivered to Gulf Air in September 1994. It was powered by two CFM International CFM56-5A3 engines and had accumulated 17,370 hours in 13,990 takeoff and landing cycles before the accident. It's last maintenance was conducted on the 17th–18th of August 2000. The aircraft was in compliance with all applicable airworthiness directives for the airframe and engines.
The aircraft was carrying 135 passengers, 2 pilots, and 6 cabin crew members. Among the 135 passengers were 61 men, 37 women and 37 children (including 8 infants). The majority of the passengers were from Bahrain and Egypt. Most of the Egyptian passengers were expatriate families who were returning to their homes in the Gulf region after a holiday in Egypt. One Egyptian who was supposed to board the flight was turned away by immigration officials in Cairo who found his passport was not stamped with the necessary Egyptian interior ministry permit for working abroad.
The American Consulate in Bahrain confirmed that one American embassy courier, who reportedly was holding classified information, was on board Flight 072. Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported that three Chinese workers from a news agency in Cairo were also onboard. They were on a stopover in Bahrain, and would have continued to China.
