Part 100: North Macedonia

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This plane crash takes us to the European country of North Macedonia, which is located next to the following countries: Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in April 1993

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Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in April 1993.

Avioimpex Flight 110, registered as Romeo Alpha- 42390 (RA-42390), was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Avioimpex that crashed on the 20th of November 1993, while the plane was flying from Geneva Airport (IATA: GVA, ICAO: LSGG), Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje International Airport (IATA: SKP, ICAO: LWSK), Skopje, North Macedonia, before disasters the flight had deviated from Skopje International Airport to Ohrid Airport (IATA: OHD, ICAO: LWOH), Ohrid, North Macedonia, due to a blizzard in the Macedonian capital, the plane was a Yakovlev Yak-42, that was carrying 108 passengers and 8 crew (116 in total), which crashed about 7 kilometres east of Ohrid Airport, all 116 people on board were killed in the crash, the crash was Macedonia's third aviation disaster in 16 months and the crash remains the country's deadliest crash.

The flight was cleared for an approach to Runway 02, the Yak-42 was approximately 2,300 feet (700 meters) too high to carry out a successful landing, so a missed approach was executed, shortly afterwards the crew of the flight radioed that they were not receiving the VOR signal, ATC was unable to satisfy the request for a bearing and the crew of the flight advised that they couldn't see the runway lights, shortly after the flight crashed killing all 116 people on board, one person survived but they passed away on the 1st of December 1993.

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

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