LAPA Flight 3142 was a flight from Buenos Aires to Córdoba, Argentina operated by the Argentinian airline LAPA. The plane crashed at the Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires on August 31, 1999 at 20:54 local time, shortly after take-off. The crash resulted in 65 fatalities, 17 people severely injured, and several people with minor injuries, making it one of the deadliest accidents in the history of Argentinian aviation.
As the aircraft took o...
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LAPA Flight 3142 was a flight from Buenos Aires to Córdoba, Argentina operated by the Argentinian airline LAPA. The plane crashed at the Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires on August 31, 1999 at 20:54 local time, shortly after take-off. The crash resulted in 65 fatalities, 17 people severely injured, and several people with minor injuries, making it one of the deadliest accidents in the history of Argentinian aviation.
As the aircraft took off, an alarm began to sound, to which the pilots paid no attention. This alarm, whose cause the pilots could not determine, indicated that the aircraft's flaps were not correctly configured (fully retracted), preventing take-off even though the aircraft had achieved minimum take-off speed by this time. Unable to stop before the end of the runway due to its high speed, the Boeing aircraft continued beyond the ramp, later breaking through the airport's perimeter fence, crossing a road, dragging along an automobile that was travelling on the road...
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