Passengers 110 Fatalities 98 Date 1 September 1966 Passenger count 110 | Crew 7 Survivors 19 Number of deaths 98 Survivor 19 | |
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Site 3 km (1.9 mls) SE of Brnik Airport, Yugoslavia Similar United Arab Airlines Fl, Pakistan International Airlines Fl, 1966 Felthorpe Trident cr, West Coast Airlines Flight 956, American Flyers Flight 280 | ||
Britannia airways flight 105 crash brnik yugoslavia 1966
Britannia Airways Flight 105 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Luton Airport for a flight to Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (known as Brnik Airport at that time). The flight was operated by Bristol Britannia G-ANBB with 110 passengers and seven crew on board. The aircraft crash occurred on 1 September 1966 at 00:47 during the approach, when the aircraft struck trees in the woods between Lahovče and Nasovče under cloudy conditions. Ninety-eight of the 117 passengers and crew died in the accident. The reason cited for the accident was a wrong setting of the altimeter.
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