Tag: Air Traffic Control Error
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Aeroflot Flight 5463 Was Flying Safely Toward Alma-Ata-Then a Wrong Turn, a Deadly 600-Metre Descent and a Final Warning With Just 23 Seconds to React Sent the Tu-134 Straight Into a Mountain
On This Day In 1983: Aeroflot Flight 5463 Flew Toward a Mountain — and the Crew Had Just 23 Seconds to Escape On 30 August 1983, Aeroflot Flight 5463 was approaching Alma-Ata, the present-day Almaty in Kazakhstan, when a chain of navigation mistakes, unsafe air traffic control instructions and failures in cockpit decision-making placed the…
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