Part 81: Kyrgyzstan

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This plane crash takes us to the Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, which is located next to the following countries: Kazakhstan, China, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

Pictured above is the accident aircraft

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Pictured above is the accident aircraft.

Iran Aseman Flight 6895, registered as Echo Xray- 009 (EX-009), was a Boeing 737-200 aircraft that was operating a charter flight which was operated by Itek Air on behalf of Iran Aseman Airlines, which crashed on the 24th of August 2008 at 20:44pm local time near the Manas International Airport (IATA: FRU, ICAO: UCFM), Kyrgyzstan while it was en route to Imam Khomeini International Airport (IATA: IKA, ICAO: OIIE), Tehran, Iran, the plane crashed while returning to the airport of origin after the plane experimented technical difficulties.

7 minutes after taking off from Manas Airport, the flight crew requested a return to the airport due to a "technical reason", when they saw an indication that one of the doors was not properly locked and the cabin was not pressurised as expected. The flight crew realised the speed and altitude was too high for a landing, the flight crew decided to execute a left 360 degree turn when they were 6 kilometres away from the airport, while doing this turn, the flight crew failed to monitor altitude and vertical speed and the plane inadvertently descended, being unable to see the ground at nighttime, the aircraft struck the ground with it's left wing and crashed, out of the 90 people on board the plane, 65 people were killed and 25 people survived the crash, which makes this crash the deadliest accident in aviation to have occurred in Kyrgyzstan.

The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain during approach due to pilot error.

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