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Wreckage from Aeroperú Flight 603, which crashed into the Pacific after departing Jorge Chávez Intl Airport on October 2nd, 1996

All sixty-one passengers and nine crew members were killed in the accident.

via Reddit

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An artist’s rendition of N52AW as Aeroperú Flight 603, which crashed off the coast of Ancón, Lima, on October 2nd, 1996

A maintenance worker's use of duct tape to cover the 757′s static ports, and his failure to remove it before flight caused the aircraft to crash into the Pacific Ocean after it took off from Jorge Chávez International Airport bound for Santiago. The pilots, Captain Eric Schreiber and F/O David Fernández, fought for half an hour to attempt a return to LIM without basic instrumentation, before the 757 hit the water 43 NM away from the airport, killing all sixty-one passengers and nine crew on board.

Illustration by Anynobody, CC-BY-SA 4.0 - via Wikimedia Commons

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Descuido mortal: Vuelo 603 de AeroPerú.

Descuido mortal: Vuelo 603 de AeroPerú.

Hace 20 años, un simple trozo de cinta adhesiva metálica derivó en una de las más recordadas y lamentables tragedias aéreas: un avión Boeing 757-23A se impactó en el Océano Pacífico, terminando con la vida de los 70 ocupantes que se dirigían desde Lima, Perú, hacia Santiago de Chile. Fué el verdugo de la  aerolínea bandera del país sudamericano: el vuelo AeroPerú 603.

El vuelo se había originado…

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