Tag: Ground Proximity Warning System
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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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On This Day In 1996: The 3.7-Km Navigation Error That Sent a Tu-154 Into a Mountain, Killing All 141 Aboard
On 29 August 1996, Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 was approaching Svalbard Airport in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard when a series of seemingly small navigation errors placed the aircraft directly on a collision course with a mountain. The Tupolev Tu-154M, carrying 130 passengers and 11 crew members, crashed into Operafjellet during its final approach.…
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A Boeing 727 Hit A Mountain While Perfectly Flyable, Exposing A Deadly Misunderstanding Which Claimed 92 Lives
On December 1, 1974, Trans World Airlines Flight 514, a Boeing 727-231, departed Indianapolis with a stop in Columbus before continuing toward the Washington, D.C. area. On board were 85 passengers and 7 crew members. None of them knew they were about to become part of one of the most influential aviation accidents in history.…
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