3 minutes agoWhat was the former Yugoslavia's greatest air tragedy
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)On the first day of December 1981, 38 years ago, an Inex-Adria plane from Ljubljana crashed in Korsica, killing 180 people. No passenger or crew member escaped this terrible accident. It was this greatest Yugoslav Air Force disaster. A Superplane DC9-80 hit Mount “San Pietro” [...]
According to French sources, the potential source of the crash was a proper radar failure under Ajaccia Airport, which led to a misunderstanding in communication between the crew and flight control.
At 7:52 a.m., the plane hit the left arm at 1,364m high on Mount “San Peiro”, passing 700 and more meters. He then hit the hill and fell. If the plane were to fly just six feet [2 m] above the top of San Piestro, the disaster would have been avoided.
The DC9-80 aircraft was then the last word for technique, only one year out of production, named as “upper”. It was equipped with automated flying devices. With a load of 63 tons, the flight ray was 3,300 miles. That kind of plane had never had an accident before. Passengers were mostly Slovenian because the plane flew from Ljubljana to Corsica. It was a promotional flight from Kompas, and the plane was scheduled to return from Korsica to Ljubljana on the same day.
Among the passengers were Miroslav Cerar, a prominent gymnast and his wife Zdenka. And it happened that the 1-year-old girl Vesna got sick and after examining the doctor was banned from traveling, which saved her entire family's life. The Cerar family celebrates December 1st as a new birthday.
