Part 46: Denmark

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This plane crash takes us to the European country of Denmark, which is located next to the following countries: Germany, Sweden and it's located near Norway.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

  Pictured above is the accident aircraft

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  Pictured above is the accident aircraft.

Pictured below is the reconstructed tail section of the aircraft after it crashed.

Partnair Flight 394, registered as Lima November- Papa Alpha Alpha (LN-PAA), was a scheduled international charter flight that crashed on the 8th of September 1989 off the coast of Denmark, 18 kilometres north of Hirtshals, all 55 people onboard t...

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Partnair Flight 394, registered as Lima November- Papa Alpha Alpha (LN-PAA), was a scheduled international charter flight that crashed on the 8th of September 1989 off the coast of Denmark, 18 kilometres north of Hirtshals, all 55 people onboard the plane were killed in the crash, making it the deadliest disaster in Danish aviation history, the aircraft was on a chartered flight from Oslo Airport (IATA: FBU, ICAO: ENFB), Fornebu, Norway to Hamburg Airport (IATA: HAM, ICAO: EDDH), Germany.

Before the flight the crew found that one of the two main power generators was defective, the crew decided to use the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) throughout the flight so the plane would have two sources of power and they could leave but Oslo Airport wouldn't let the flight leave until a catering bill was paid for, so the Captain left the cockpit and he paid the catering company, as a result, the flight was delayed by almost an hour, finally the flight departed at 3:59pm local time.

As the flight passed over the water at it's planned cruising altitude of 22,000 feet, a Norwegian F-16 Fighter Falcon fighter jet passed by the plane, the F-16 pilot was startled by the aircraft, so he contacted Oslo ATC, believing that his radar data was false and that the aircraft was closer to his jet than his on board computer had indicated, as the flight neared the Danish coastline, 22,000 feet over the North Sea, Copenhagen ATC saw on their radar that the plane was off course and falling quickly, appearing to crash into the sea roughly 20 kilometres north of the Danish coast.

The summary of the crash was a rudder failure and break off due to improper APU maintenance and use of counter fit tail parts; loss of control.

Below is a video which explains what happened to the aircraft, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.

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