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Birgenair: Historical Fatality


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Contact Photographer Gerhard Plomitzer

What: Birgenair Boeing 757-200 en route from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic to Frankfurt Germany
Where: Puerto Plata
When: February 6th 1996
Who: 176 passengers 13 crew
Why: The plane had been parked for a month in Puerto Plata. After takeoff, disagreeing airspeeds resulted in simultaneous stall and overspeed warnings that precipitated a crash that killed 176 passengers and 13 crew fifteen minutes after takeoff.

A black and yellow mud dauber wasp was found lodged in the tube.

George’s Point of View

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