0.7 km (0.43 mi; 0.38 nmi) north of Zurich Airport, Switzerland
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Ilyushin Il-18
Operator
Balkan Bulgarian Airlines
Registration
LZ-BED
Flight origin
Paris–Le Bourget Airport
Stopover
Zurich Airport
Destination
Sofia Airport
Passengers
39
Crew
8
Fatalities
45
Survivors
2
Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 130 was a scheduled passenger flight from Paris–Le Bourget Airport to Sofia Airport with a stopover in Zurich Airport that, on 18 January 1971, crashed while on approach to Zürich. All but two occupants were killed.[1]
BalkanBulgarianAirlines (Bulgarian: Балкан) was Bulgaria's government-owned flag carrier airline between 1947 and 2002. During the 1970s, the airline...
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Olympic Airlines ceased all operations and most flights. Olympic Air, the new airline formed from privatization, commenced flights. Olympic Airlines continued...
are held in Sofia, Bulgaria. 16 March – A BalkanBulgarianAirlines Tupolev Tu-134 airliner crashes near the village of Gabare (130 km northeast of Sofia)...
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...
first hijacking for the airline. January 5, 2011: Turkish AirlinesFlight 1754, flying from Oslo to Istanbul, was in Bulgarian airspace when an unsuccessful...
LZ-BTN), which was chartered by Libyan Arab Airlines from BalkanBulgarianAirlines to operate a Hajj flight from Jeddah to Benghazi crashed near Benina...
subsidiary of Frontier Airlines operating Boeing 727-100s, begins flight operations. January 10 – A BalkanBulgarianAirlines Tupolev Tu-134 strikes a...
by HRB. Hijacking of Scandinavian Airlines System Flight130, 15–16 September 1972, by HNO. Hijacking of TWA Flight 355, September 10 1976, by Croatian...
First Bulgarian Empire, 836–1004 Byzantine Empire, 1004–1093 Grand Principality of Serbia, 1093–1097 Byzantine Empire, 1098–1203 Second Bulgarian Empire...
air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals the events that led to each crisis...
for air traffic management. During the 1970s and 1980s, BalkanAirlines operated regular flights to Sofia and Varna. In 1995, the airport gained an international...
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...
by J. Romero Maura, Past & Present 1968, 41:130-183 Megas G. The Boatmen of Thesalloniki. The Bulgarian anarchist group and the bomb attacks of 1903...
180 hp (130 kW). The overall weight was 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg). It was intended as a test rig to investigate aerodynamic lift: lacking flight controls...
police five minutes later. March 16 – A BalkanBulgarianAirlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing all 73 people on board. March 25...