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This plane crash takes us to the European nation of Slovakia, which is located next to the following countries: Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine and Poland.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft that was involved in this crash.
TABSO Flight 101, registered as Lima Zulu- Bravo Echo November (LZ-BEN), was a scheduled service of the Bulgarian national airline from Sofia Airport (IATA: SOF, ICAO: LBSF), Sofia, Bulgaria via Budapest Airport (IATA: BUD, ICAO: LHBP), Budapest, Hungary and Prague Airport (IATA: PRG, ICAO: LKPR), Prague, Czechoslovakia (Today's Czech Republic) to East Berlin Airport (IATA: BER, ICAO: EDDB), Berlin, German Democratic Republic (Today's Germany), the service was operated by the airline's 1960s flagship equipment, the Ilyushin II- 18B airliner, on the 24th of November 1966, the plane crashed near Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia (which was apart of Czechoslovakia), with the loss of 82 lives, the crash remains Slovakia's deadliest aviation disaster.
Some two minutes after departing Bratislava Airport, the plane crashed eight kilometres from the airport into the Sakrakopec location in the foothills of the Little Carpathians, near Bratislava's borough of Rača, the area of impact was 288 meters (945 feet) above the elevation of the airport, the plane struck the snow covered ground while flying without any bank angle, at a speed of some 250 knots (460 kilometres per hour) and while in full takeoff power was delivered by it's four engines, as the plane disintegrated over a period of 20 seconds, to left a swathe with the total length of 562 meters (1,844 feet) and a width of between 30 and 10 meters (98 and 33 feet), of which the main wreckage was located towards the end of a 265 meter long (869 feet) strip, a fierce fuel fire broke out but burned out fairly rapidly, mostly because fragments and fuel had dispersed over a large area, 74 out of the 82 people on board where transported from the crash site for identification, most of the occupants on board the plane died instantly during the impact and most sustained severe burn marks post-mortem (after death).
The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain, bad weather and pilot error.
Pictured below is a memorial cross at the site of the crash.
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