Air Safety #OTD by Francisco Cunhaさんのイラストまとめ

#OTD in 1965: Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705, a B-720, crashes on approach to Cairo (Egypt) killing 119 of 125 aboard. Cause: jet did not maintain adequate height and continued to descend till impact. Reason for abnormal continuation of descent is unknown.

#OTD in 1949: Superga Air disaster. A Fiat G.212 of Avio Linee Italiane [I-ELCE] carrying the Torino football team (known as “Grande Torino”), crashed into the retaining wall at the back of the Basilica of Superga, on a hill on the outskirts of Turin (Italy). All 31 aboard died.

#OTD in 1985: Aeroflot Flight 8381, a Tupolev Tu-134, collides with a Soviet Air Force Antonov An-26 during descent to a stopover at Lviv (Ukraine) The accident was caused by violation of ATC rules by both civil and military controllers. All 94 onboard both planes died.