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TAP Air Portugal Flight 425

131Fatalities
33Survivors
162On board

Accident details

What happened

A Boeing 727 operating a multi-leg flight from Belgium to Portugal, plunges over a steep bank and bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Madeira Airport due to pilot error, killing 131 of the 164 people on board.

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