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This plane crash takes us to the West African nation of Liberia, which is located next to the following countries: Ivory Coast, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Varig Flight 837, registered as Papa Papa-Papa Echo Alpha (PP-PEA), was an international passenger flight from Fiumicino Airport (Also known as Leonardo da Vinci Airport, IATA: FCO, ICAO: LIRF), Rome, Italy to Galeão International Airport (IATA: GIG, ICAO: SBGL), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the flight had a stopover at Roberts International Airport (IATA: ROB, ICAO: GLRB), Monrovia, Liberia, the flight originated at Beirut, Lebanon, on the 5th of March 1967, due to pilot error, the flight crashed during the approach to Runway 04 of Roberts International Airport, of the 71 passengers and 19 crew (98 in total), 50 passengers and the flight engineer were killed in the crash, in addition 5 people on the ground were also killed in the crash, the aircraft caught fire and was written off, the crash was the worst aviation accident in Liberia to this day.
Investigators determined the probable cause of the crash to be "The failure of the pilot in command to arrest in time the fast descent at a low altitude up on which he had erroneously decided, instead of executing a missed approach when he found himself too high over the locator beacon".
The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain caused by Pilot error.
