Ukranian Mediterranean Airline Yakovlev YAK-42D plane crash
Key facts
- Airline
- Ukranian Mediterranean Airline
- Aircraft
- Yakovlev YAK-42D
- Location
- Macka, Turkey
- Date
- 26th May, 2003
- People on board
- 75
- Fatalities
- 75
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Accident account
The aircraft, on a military charter flight from Kabul, Afghanistan to Zaragoza, Spain, crashed while on its third landing attempt for a refueling stop at the Black Sea port city of Trabzon. All 75 people onboard were killed.
An international commission that investigated the crash ruled that the company and its staff were guilty of the accident. A tired and untrained crew, violations of international passenger transportation rules and poor technical condition of the plane caused the accident.
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