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History: Special trade mission flight IFO-21

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IFO-21 - USAF Boeing CT-43A crash
USAF CT-43A - IFO-21 crash
USAF CT-43A - IFO-21 crash


Accident summary
Date 3 Aprill 1996
Type : Pilot error,
badly designed
instrument approach
,
CFIT
Location : Dubrovnik Airport
Passengers : 30
Crew : 5
Fatalities : 35 (all)
Survivors : 0
Aircraft involved : Boeing CT-43A
a modified version
of the Boeing 737-200
Operator : United States Air Force
Aircraft registration : 73-1149
Flight origin : Zagreb Airport
Destination : Dubrovnik Airport




On 3 April 1996 special trade mission flight IFO-21 a USAF Boeing CT-43A crashed on approach to Dubrovnik Airport during an official trade mission killing all 35 people on board. The Boeing CT-43A was carrying the United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and some other notable people like The New York Times Frankfurt Bureay chief Nathaniel C. Nash). The plane crashed into a mountainside while attempting an ((instrument approach. Initially there was one survivor Air Force Technical Sergeant Shelly Kelly who received only minor injuries however she died three hours after the crash due to an injury sustained in the ambulance.

The aircraft involved in the crash was operated by the 86th Airlift Wing, based at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Due to the fact that this was a modified 737 for military use it wasn't equipped with a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder.



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The crash of this special trade mission flight is featured in episode 10 of the 4th season of the air-crash investigation television show Air Crash Investigations (called Mayday in the US), entitled Fog of War.

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