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TABSO Flight 101
A TABSO Ilyushin Il-18, similar to the accident aircraft
Accident
Date
24 November 1966
Summary
Controlled flight into terrain, bad weather and pilot error
Site
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 48°14′40″N17°09′55″E / 48.24444°N 17.16528°E / 48.24444; 17.16528
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Ilyushin Il-18B
Operator
TABSO
Registration
LZ-BEN
Occupants
82
Passengers
74
Crew
8
Fatalities
82
Survivors
0
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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