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These two plane crashes takes us to the Middle Eastern country of Untied Arab Emirates (UAE), which is located next to the following countries: Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar.
WARNINGS OF PLANE CRASHES
Number one- The crash of Sterling Airways Flight 296
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On the 14th of March 1972, Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed into a mountain ridge on approach to Dubai in Al Hail, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Flight 296 was a charter flight from Colombo to Copenhagen with stops in Bombay, Dubai, and Ankara. All 112 passengers and crew on board died in the crash which was attributed to pilot error. The flight was operated by a Sud Aviation Caravelle, registration OY-STL (Oscar Yankee- Sierra Tango Lima). To date, it is the deadliest air disaster to involve a Caravelle and the deadliest air disaster in the history of the United Arab Emirates along with Gulf Air Flight 771 which also killed 112.
The aircraft involved was Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 10B3, powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9 engines, operated by Sterling Airways, with registration OY-STL. It had it's first flight on the 10th of May 1970. The aircraft was in a long-haul flight configuration being equipped with central fuel tanks. The passenger capacity of the cabin was 109 seats, though the maximum number of people on board was 116. The aircraft had 6,674 hours and 50 minutes flight time and 2,373 landings at the time of the accident. The last Y-l check (every 12–15 months) was performed by Finnair (under a contract) on the 5th of June 1971. The aircraft's last overhaul was performed on 8 February 1972, when the aircraft had 6,270 hours 39 minutes of flying time. The last A and B technical inspections were performed one day before the accident flight on 13 March 1972, before departure from Copenhagen. The last B-check was performed in Bombay the same day.
Sterling Airways Flight 296 was chartered by the tour company Tjæreborg Rejser to take 106 Europeans home from vacations in Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka). The flight from Colombo to Copenhagen was scheduled to make refuelling stops in Bombay, Dubai, and Ankara. A change of crew was also scheduled during the stop in Ankara. Flight 296 departed from Colombo on time at 17:20pm local time for Bombay.
The 106 passengers were from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and West Germany. The Danish cockpit crew consisted of Captain Ole Jørgensen, 35, and First Officer Jørgen Pedersen, 30.
At 19:45pm, it landed in Bombay. The passengers were not allowed to de-plane during the stop in Bombay. After refuelling Flight 296 departed Bombay for the next stop in Dubai at 21:20pm.
According to the flight plan, Flight 296 from Bombay to Dubai was to follow the R19 air corridor at flight level 310 (31,000 feet (9,400 m; 9.4 km). The length of the route was 1,045 nautical miles (1,935 km; 1,203 mi) the majority of it passing over the Arabian Sea, while the route had 5 waypoints for reports on position: SALMON, SEAHORSE, BLUE WHALE, DOLPHIN and SPEARFISH, located 292, 531, 706 and 854 miles (185, 541, 983, 1308 and 1582 km) respectively, from Bombay.
