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This plane crash takes us to the European country of Croatia, which is located next to the following countries: Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft that was involved in this crash.
Aviogenex Flight 130, registered as Yankee Uniform- Alpha Hotel Zulu (YU-AHZ), was an international charter passenger flight from Gatwick Airport (IATA: LGW, ICAO: EGKK), London to Rijeka Airport (IATA: RJK, ICAO: LDRI), Yugoslavia (which is now Croatia), on the 23rd of May 1971, the Tupolev Tu-134A serving this flight suffered structural failure during landing at Rijeka Airport, the aircraft flipped over and caught fire, killing 78 people, the crash became the first fatal accident of the Tupolev Tu-134 since it entered service.
At approximately 3.2 kilometres from the Runway 14 Threshold , the aircraft was carried up then it rolled to the right, the flight crew managed to align with the centreline but they couldn't return to the ILS glide path, the aircraft remained above the glide path despite the efforts to reduce altitude by applying down on the elevator and reducing power to the engines.
As a result of the aerodynamic features of the aircraft and reduced speed, the aircraft entered a gradually steeping angle of descent, it touched down hard onto Runway 14 at around 19:45pm local time some 590 feet before the proper touchdown point, the right landing gear touched down first at a speed of 260 kilometres per hour, as a result of the excessive forces on the right main landing gear, it's strut and shock absorber broke the right wing, which broke off from the aircraft, this caused the aircraft to flip and it slid down the runway inverted for 2,300 feet, a fire was started by sparks from the flaps, scratching on the runway and the fuel that was spilled from the right wing fuel tank, 78 people were killed in the crash and 5 people survived the crash.
The summary of the crash was a Hard landing caused by an optical illusion.
