Part 44: Cyprus

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This plane crash takes us to the European nation of Cyprus, which is located in the Mediterranean Sea and is located near Syria and Turkey.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

 Pictured above is the accident aircraft

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Pictured above is the accident aircraft.

The Nicosia Britannia disaster was the death of 126 people on a Bristol Britannia aircraft, registered as Hotel Bravo- India Tango Bravo (HB-ITB), that was owned by the Swiss airliner Globe Air, when the Britannia flew into the ground 3.5 kilometres south of Nicosia International Airport (IATA: NIC, ICAO: LCNC), Nicosia, Cyprus.

The Britannia aircraft was operating a charter flight on the 20th of April 1967 that was bringing tourists from Bangkok International Airport (IATA: DMK, ICAO: VTBD), Bangkok, Thailand to Euro Airport (IATA: MLH, BSL, EAP, ICAO: LFSB), Baselin, Switzerland with scheduled stopovers at Colombo International Airport (IATA: CMB, ICAO: VCBI), Colombo, Sri Lanka, Chhatrapati International Airport (IATA: BOM, ICAO: VABB), Bombay, India and a stopover at Cairo International Airport (IATA: CAI, ICAO: HECA), Cairo, Egypt, the flight stopped at Colombo in Sri Lanka and then Bombay in India with it's next scheduled stop to be Cairo, however the crew diverted the flight to Nicosia due to bad weather at Cairo, the aircraft was on it's third attempt to land on Runway 32 in a violent thunderstorm when the plane flew into a hill near the village of Lakatamia and the aircraft burst into flames, out of the 130 people on board the plane 126 were killed in the crash leaving only 4 survivors.

The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain.

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