Tag: Aviation Accident 1981
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On This Day In 1981: The Mountain Was Hidden By Clouds – Aeropesca Flight 221 Hit It At About 8,500 Feet, Killing All 50
On 26 August 1981, Aeropesca Flight 221 departed Florencia, Colombia, bound for Neiva. The scheduled domestic service was operated by a four-engine Vickers Viscount 745D, registration HK-1320, carrying 44 passengers and six crew members. None of them would survive. The aircraft, named Ciudad de Popayan, had first flown in Britain on 22 February 1956. It…
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On This Day In 1981: Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 Disintegrated Midair Due To Severe Fuselage Corrosion, Killing All 110 Aboard
On August 22, 1981, Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 was flying from Taipei Songshan Airport to Kaohsiung in Taiwan when a Boeing 737-222 suddenly broke apart in midair. All 110 people aboard were killed. What made the disaster especially disturbing was that the same aircraft had already suffered cabin-pressure problems earlier that day —…
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