TABSO Flight 101
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TABSO Flight 101 was a scheduled service of the Bulgarian national airline from Sofia, Bulgaria, via Budapest, Hungary, and Prague, Czechoslovakia (today's Czech Republic), to East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic (today's Germany). The service was operated by the airline's 1960s' flagship equipment, the Ilyushin Il-18B airliner. On Thursday 24 November 1966, the service crashed near Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia (then part of Czechoslovakia), with the loss of 82 lives. The crash remains Slovakia's deadliest aviation disaster.[1]
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Date | 24 November 1966 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain, bad weather and pilot error, official casuse undetermined |
Site | Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 48°14′40″N 17°09′55″E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Ilyushin Il-18B |
Operator | TABSO |
Registration | LZ-BEN |
Occupants | 82 |
Passengers | 74 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 82 |
Survivors | 0 |
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