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This plane crash takes us to the South American country of Peru, which is located next to the following countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in 1989 when the plane was in service for Braniff Airlines.
Faucett Perú Flight 251, registered as Oscar Bravo- 1451 (OB-1451), refers to a Boeing 737-200 that was operating a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Jorge Cháves International Airport (IATA: LIM, ICAO: SPJC), Lima, Peru to Coronel FAP Carlos Ciriani Santa Rosa International Airport (IATA: TCQ, ICAO: SPTN), Tacna, Peru with a scheduled stopover at Rodríguez Ballón International Airport (IATA: AQP, ICAO: SPQU), Arequipa, Peru, passenger service that crashed on the 29th of February 1996, while the flight was completing the first leg from Lima and was on approach to Rodríguez Ballón International Airport, all 123 people on board the plane lost their lives in the crash, the crash is the deadliest aviation accident that has occurred on Peruvian soil.
The flight crew had been issued an outdated barometric altimeter setting after bypassing an ILS signal, causing the plane to fly almost 1,000 feet lower than the altitude they believed they were flying at, they had the wrong impression the plane was flying at 9,500 feet, when it was at 8,640 feet, some 850 feet below the glide slope, the crew asked for the lights of the runway to be brightened as they couldn't see them when they should be on normal approach, receiving a response from ATC that the lights were at full intensity, the plane crashed into hills at 8,200 feet, the airport elevation is 8,405 feet, at 20:25pm local time, approximately 2 kilometres short of the runway and 8 kilometres off Arequipa, the aft section broke off on impact, the main fuselage section continued to fly past the initial ridge and impacted near the top of the second ridge, the tail section fell into a crevasse between the two ridges.
The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain.
