Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 107 was an accident that occurred on 16 March 1978, when a Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 airliner on an international flight from Sofia Airport to Warsaw Airport crashed.[1] All passengers and crew died in the crash. As of 2024, it remains the deadliest accident in Bulgarian aviation history.[1] The exact cause of the crash remains unknown.
BalkanBulgarianAirlinesFlight107 was an accident that occurred on 16 March 1978, when a BalkanBulgarianAirlines Tupolev Tu-134 airliner on an international...
result of pilot error, killing all 79 on board. March 3 – BalkanBulgarianAirlinesFlight 307, an Ilyushin Il-18, crashed short of the runway at Sheremetyevo...
first hijacking for the airline. January 5, 2011: Turkish AirlinesFlight 1754, flying from Oslo to Istanbul, was in Bulgarian airspace when an unsuccessful...
shot down by Bulgarian jets after it went astray onto Bulgarian airspace. Everyone on board Flight 402 was killed. A BalkanBulgarianAirlines Tupolev Tu-134...
effectively closed down after 35 years. In November 1995, BalkanBulgarianAirlines introduced a flight from Sofia to New York City that stopped in Malta. The...
the Bulgarian company Balkangtsev in May 2000. The registration was changed to LZ-LTO, and in December 2000, was subleased to another Bulgarian company...
air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals the events that led to each crisis...
police five minutes later. March 16 – A BalkanBulgarianAirlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing all 73 people on board. March 25...
Bulgarian army arrived one day after the surrender of the city to Greece and Hasan Tahsin Pasha, commander of the city's defences, told the Bulgarian...
November 1911. Then Bulgaria followed this example. Its aeroplanes attacked and reconnoitred the Ottoman positions during the First Balkan War 1912–13. The...
prototype. November 4 – During a domestic flight in Bulgaria from Bourgas to Sofia, a BalkanBulgarianAirlines Ilyushin Il-14P's (registration LZ-ILA)...
board. Its wreckage is not found until March 10. March 3 – BalkanBulgarianAirlinesFlight 307, an Ilyushin Il-18, crashes in the Soviet Union at Skhodnya...
the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey...
Turkish Airlines uses Istanbul Airport, which has a current annual capacity of serving 90 million passengers, as its main hub and several other airlines operate...
including closing Bulgarian Orthodox Church schools, revising history textbooks, dismissing "unreliable" teachers, banning the use of the Bulgarian language,...
its first Boeing 747, which it acquired in 1970. January 18 – A BalkanBulgarianAirlines Ilyushin Il-18D crashes 0.7 km (0.43 mi) short of the runway on...
52/3m was delivered to Bolivian airline Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano during 1932. During its initial production years, airlines were the type's most common customers...
Crete (Operation Merkur), the invasion of Yugoslavia was part of the German Balkan Campaign (German: Balkanfeldzug). In October 1940, Fascist Italy had attacked...
the world's first airline in revenue service. By mid-1914, DELAG had carried over 10,000 fare-paying passengers on over 1,500 flights. During World War...
ukrinform.ua. 29 January 2019. "Ukraine International Airlines launches direct Kyiv–New York flights". KyivPost. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2015. "The...
Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of the Balkans, a region of Southern Europe. Sarajevo is the political, financial, social...
only two of these (Budapest and Debrecen) receive scheduled flights. Low-budget airline Wizz Air is based at Ferihegy. Hungary's total energy supply...
square kilometres (2.1 million square miles). The empire spanned from the Balkans and Egypt in the west, West Asia as the base, the majority of Central Asia...
production of the He 111 for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service BulgariaBulgarian Air Force China Chinese Nationalist Air Force Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak...
June 2017, more than 40 airlineflights in the United States were grounded, with American Airlines reducing sales on certain flights to prevent the vehicles...
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