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This plane crash takes us to the South American country of Colombia, which is located next to the following countries: Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the crash site.
American Airlines Flight 965, which was a Boeing 757 aircraft, registered as November 651 Alpha Alpha (N651AA), was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Miami International Airport (IATA: MIA, ICAO: KMIA), Miami, Florida to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (IATA: CLO, ICAO: SKCL), Cali, Colombia, the crash killed 151 of the 155 passengers and it killed all eight crew members (163 in total, 159 people were killed, 4 people survived the crash and dog that was named miracle also survived the crash), the crash occurred on the 20th of December, 1995.
The flight was uneventful until the crew made their approach to the airport in Colombia, the crew agreed to a straight in approach to Runway 19 which was a non precision approach, the pilots cleared all approach waypoints from the FMC (Flight Management Computer), the ATC controller asked the crew to report passing the Tulua VOR waypoint north of Cali, since it wasn't programmed into the FMC, the crew had to find the VOR identifier on the approach chart, in the meantime the crew extended the speed brakes to slow the plane down and expedited it's descent, they selected the wrong waypoint, they pressed the Romeo waypoint instead of the Rozo waypoint, the Romeo waypoint was near Bogatá, which was 280 kilometres away from Cali, the autopilot started flying a course to Bogatá, turning east in a wide semi circle, the pilots tried to correct it by turing south but at the time the error was noticed, the aircraft was in a valley parallel to the one they should have been in, the aircraft was on a collision course with a 9,800 foot mountain, twelve seconds before the plane hit the mountain the GPWS activated, within a second the First Officer disengaged the autopilot, takeoff power was selected, the pitch increased to 20.6 degrees nose up, the stick shaker activated, the speed brakes were still engaged which reduced the rate of climb, at 9:41:28pm EST (Eastern Standard Time), the aircraft struck trees at about 8,920 feet on the east side of the mountain, the crash was 9.7 kilometres south of the Tulua VOR and it was 28 kilometres north of the approach end of Runway 19, initially the aircraft cleared the summit of the mountain, but it struck trees with it's tail and it crashed shortly after the summit.
The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain caused by navigational error and pilot error.
Below is a video which explains what happened that day, video credit goes to The Flight Channel on Youtube.
Below is another video, which explains what happened that day, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.
