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This plane crash takes us to the South American country of Uruguay, which is located next to the following countries: Brazil and Argentina.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in 1995.
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, registered as Lima Victor- Whiskey Echo Golf (LV-WEG), was and Argentinian domestic scheduled passenger flight from Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (IATA: PSS, ICAO: SARP), Posadas, Argentina to Jorge Newbery Airfield (IATA: AEP, ICAO: SABE), Buenos Aires, Argentina, the service was operated with a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 aircraft that crashed on the lands of Estancia Magallanes, Nuevo Berlín, 32 kilometres (20 miles; 17 nautical miles) away from Fray Bentos, Uruguay, on the 10th if October 1997, all 74 people on board the plane died upon impact, the accident remains the deadliest in Uruguayan history.
The pitot tube froze when the aircraft passed through a 15,000 meter (49,000 feet) high cumulonimbus cloud, blocking the instrument causing it to give a false recording, during the descent, the FDR recorded an increase in airspeed from 300 kilometres per hour (160 knots; 190 miles per hour) to 800 kilometres per hour (430 knots; 500 miles per hour), the slats were extended since it was to maintain their altitude and to lower the plane's stall speed, at that point the plane was flying at a higher speed than normal, it was descending which increased the speed to near the never exceed speed, above this speed, structural damage to the plane might occur, one of the extended slats was torn from the plane causing asymmetry in the airflow over the wings, the plane became uncontrollable and crashed, specialists estimated that the plane crashed almost perpendicular to the ground at a speed of 1,200 kilometres per hour (650 knots), depending on the source, the crater left by the crash was 6 meters (20 feet) deep and 30 meters (98 feet) wide or 25 feet (7.6 meters) deep and 30 feet (9.1 meters) wide or 25 feet (7.6 meters) deep and 80 feet (24 meters) wide.
The summary of the crash was Instrument malfunction, pilot error.
