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This plane crash takes us to the small island nation of Cabo Verde, which is located off the West coast of Africa and it' located in the Atlantic Ocean.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft involved in this accident.
TACV Flight 5002 was a flight operated by TACV that crashed on the 7th of August 1999, due to technical difficulties, the aircraft normally serving the route from São Pedro Airport (IATA: VXE, ICAO: GVSV) on the island of São Vicente, Cabo Verde to the Agostinho Neto Airport (IATA: NTO, ICAO: GVAN) on the island of Santo Antão, which was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft was replaced with a Cabo Verde Coast Guard Dornier 228, registered as Delta 4- Charlie Bravo Charlie (D4-CBC).
The aircraft took off from São Pedro at 11:42am local time for it's short flight to Agostinho Neto Airport, thirteen minutes after take off, rain and fog covered Santo Antão and it placed the arrival airport below the minimum VFR, so the pilots made the decision to return to São Vicente at 11:56am local time.
The aircraft overflow the island of Santo Antão at 12:02pm local time, but the plane crashed into the wooded mountainside at an altitude of 4,490 feet, the aircraft burst into flames and all 18 people on board the plane were killed in the crash.
The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain which was aggravated by inclement weather.
