TABSO Flight 101

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TABSO Flight 101

A TABSO Ilyushin Il-18, similar to the accident aircraft
Accident
Date	24 November 1966
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain, bad weather and pilot error, official casuse undetermined
Site	Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 48°14′40″N 17°09′55″E / 48.24444°N 17.16528°E / 48.24444; 17.16528
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Ilyushin Il-18B
Operator	TABSO
Registration	LZ-BEN
Occupants	82
Passengers	74
Crew	8
Fatalities	82
Survivors	0

TABSO Flight 101 was a scheduled service of the Bulgarian national airline from Sofia, Bulgaria, via Budapest, Hungary, and Prague, Czechoslovakia (today's Czech Republic), to East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic (today's Germany). The service was operated by the airline's 1960s' flagship equipment, the Ilyushin Il-18B airliner. On Thursday 24 November 1966, the service crashed near Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia (then part of Czechoslovakia), with the loss of 82 lives. The crash remains Slovakia's deadliest aviation disaster.^[1]