Part 45: Czech Republic

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This plane crash take us to the European country of the Czech Republic, which is located next to the following countries: Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Austria.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

Pictured above is the accident aircraft

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Pictured above is the accident aircraft.

Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450, registered as Yankee Uniform- Alpha Juliet Oscar (YU-AJO), was an international charter passenger flight from Tivat Airport (IATA: TIV, ICAO: LYTV) in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Now modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia) and it was on a flight to Prague Ruzyně International Airport (IATA: PRG, ICAO: LKPR), Czechoslovakia (Now modern day Czech Republc and Slovakia), when he plane crashed into the Prague suburb of Suchdol on the 30th of October 1975 at 09:20am local time, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 aircraft that was operating the flight, with 115 passengers and 5 crew (120 people in total) on board the plane, the DC-9 was descending under Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC), which was below the defined Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA) during the final approach to Prague Ruzyně International Airport Runway 25, when the plane entered a gorge above the Vltava River and the plane was unable to climb out of the rising terrain, the crash killed 75 out of the 120 people who were on board the plane.

The flight crew selected full power trying to climb above the rising terrain of the river gorge, but it was to late, the aircraft hit trees 299 feet below the airports elevation, the plane then struck a building and crashed into a residential area, which left a 1,150 feet long debris trace, the time of the crash was 09:20am local time, taking fact the elevation of the first impact of 91 meters below the airport elevation, the last descent approved by ATC was 550 meters above the airport elevation, the flight crew descended 2,103 feet below the approved altitude given by ATC.

The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain.

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