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@OnDisasters Speaking of Bass Strait, another single-engine light plane (BRM Aero Bristell) with 2 people aboard disappeared in that strait one year ago.

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@OnDisasters By the way thanks for sharing photos of the Columbian Air Force C-130 Hercules that ditched in 1982.

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@OnDisasters Isn't Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 the deadliest air disaster in 2013? It claimed 50 lives.

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@OnDisasters The cockpit crew's survival was so lucky that, according to a journalist who had years of relationship with the captain, he and the flight engineer regarded the date of the accident as their second birthday.

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@OnDisasters A more curious aspect about the fatality index of Aeroflot Flight 3352 is that the 5 survivors include the whole cockpit crew of 4. When the Tu-154 broke apart upon impact, the cockpit effectively became an escape capsule and protected its occupants from serious injury.

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@OnDisasters Aeroflot Flight 3352's the deadliest air disaster in Russia but not in Soviet Union (surpassed by Flight 5143, which went down in Uzbekistan).

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@OnDisasters Thanks for today's summary of plane crashes, sir, but please note that Norway's deadliest air crash is Vnukovo Airlines flight 2801.

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@OnDisasters It's Barbadian 9/11, the worst aviation disaster in the country's history.

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@OnDisasters That 1988 accident in itself isn't the last involving Ilyushin Il-14: there're at least four later crashes, three during polar exploration missions and the last one during a Chinese charter flight.

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@OnDisasters Aeroflot Flight 1036 can't really be the deadliest single-plane accident anytime in history; it's just then the deadliest crash of Il-18

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@OnDisasters This incident is Boeing 757's first hull-loss

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@OnDisasters @ferlxv EC-GBT? It's supposedly a CL-215. Anyway, firefighting flying boats crash almost every year and replacing them with drones should be a priority.

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@Daspletosaurid @OnDisasters Yeti Airlines Flight 691 is the first time in history that a non-survivable airliner crash is filmed inside the cabin.

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@Daspletosaurid @OnDisasters You got the point. As a matter of fact, Air Niugini Flight 73 is the first fatal airliner accident for which an inside-cockpit video footage is available.

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@OnDisasters Similar to the 2015 Hawker Hunter airshow crash in UK, the pilot of the accident jet miraculously survived without using an ejection seat.

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Two major Boeing 727 crashes occurred in Mexico in 1969: Mexicana Flight 704 and Flight 801. The cause of neither crash was established.

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The mysterious (and not airworthy) Mexicana 727 accident

September 21, 1969: Mexicana Flight 801, a B-727, crashes in Mexico City: 27 of 118 aboard die. Jet was on approach, in landing configuration, when it suddenly lost height and hit a swamp some 0.9 mi from the airport.

The cause remains undetermined, partially as plane had no functioning “Black Boxes”(CVR/FDR) – which would, legally, deem the aircraft not airworthy – and also because all the flight crew were killed in the occurrence.

On an eerie note, one of the cabin crew on duty retired after surviving the crash. However, she would later perish in another occurrence, in 1986, also involving a Mexicana B-727.

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@OnDisasters MIAT Flight 557, with 42 victims, is the worst aviation disaster in Mongolian history

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@alainpaulok @OnDisasters May I ask if this accident well-known in Argentina? Were the crew subjected to disciplinary action, or did they receive an accolade?

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@OnDisasters @aero_in CENIPA is perhaps the busiest aviation accident investigation organization in the world, apart from the NTSB.