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This plane crash takes us to the South American country of Chile, which is located next to the following countries: Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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LAN-Chile Flight 107 was a regular scheduled international flight from the Chilean capital Santiago to Buenos Aires in Argentina. On the 6th of February 1965, the Douglas DC-6B-404 operating the flight crashed in the Andes. All 88 occupants of the aircraft died in the crash.
The DC-6 departed from Santiago-Los Cerrillos Airport (IATA: ULC, ICAO: SCTI) on the morning of the 6th of February with 80 passengers and seven crew members on board, on a flight to Ministro Pistarini International Airport (IATA: EZE, ICAO: SAEZ) in Ezeiza, near Buenos Aires. When the aircraft was at flight level 120, in the Las Melosas area of the Andes, it crashed into the side of La Corona Mountain, approximately 370 metres (1,200 ft) below it's summit. There were no survivors.
Twenty-two of the passengers had been players and staff of Santiago's Antonio Varas football team, who were on their way to Uruguay for a match against the Camadeo team in Montevideo.
As of 2021, Flight 107 was the deadliest aviation disaster in Chilean history and the second-deadliest aviation accident involving a DC-6, behind Olympic Airways Flight 954 (Crashed into terrain).
The accident investigation board attributed the accident to the pilot in command of the aircraft, who chose to follow a route that was neither in accordance with the approved flight plan nor the airline's operations manual. Weather was not a factor in the crash.
The summary of the crash was Pilot error, controlled flight into terrain.
