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Traffic control was unable to satisfy the request for a bearing and the pilot of Flight 110 advised that he could not see the runway lights. Shortly thereafter Flight 110 crashed killing 115 of the 116 people on board. One passenger, a 23-year-old Serbian man, survived but was badly
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Cleared for an approach to Runway 02, the Yak-42 was approximately 2,300 feet (700 m) too high to carry out a successful landing, so a missed approach procedure was executed. Shortly afterwards the crew of Flight 110 radioed that they were not receiving the
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926:Khorog Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crash
517:"Plane Crash in Macedonia Kills 115; 1 Survivor"
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438:"Many feared dead in Macedonia crash"
387:Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301
866:China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119
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596:"North Macedonia air safety profile"
523:. Associated Press. 22 November 1993
491:"Macedonia plane disaster kills 115"
470:. Associated Press. 24 November 1993
444:. Associated Press. 21 November 1993
986:China Northern Airlines Flight 6901
543:"Official resigns over plane crash"
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623:Aviation Disasters Second Edition
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179:Geneva International Airport
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637:"Avioimpex Flight 110"
337:Bosnia and Herzegovina
16:1993 aviation accident
936:Lufthansa Flight 2904
916:Sakha Avia Flight 301
569:"Crash survivor dies"
996:Avioimpex Flight 110
746:Lufthansa Flight 592
621:Gero, David (1996).
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