Tag: Flight Instrument Failure
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On This Day In 1996: Aeroperu Flight 603’s Blocked Sensors Due to Adhesive Tapes Triggered False Alarms, Tricking Pilots Into a Deadly Descent Over the Pacific That Killed All 70 Aboard.
On October 2, 1996, Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757-200 registered as N52AW, departed Lima, Peru, for Santiago, Chile, carrying 61 passengers and nine crew members. The aircraft took off at night in poor visibility, unaware of a dangerous maintenance error that would soon turn the flight into a desperate struggle for survival. Shortly after…
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