Boeing 737-200 crash, Apr 3, 1996 (35 killed), Dubrovnik
Boeing 737-200 accident on April 3, 1996 near Dubrovnik, Neretva, Croatia with 35 fatalities. Cause: Controlled flight into terrain. Contributing...
- Date: April 3, 1996
- Aircraft: Boeing 737-200
- Location: Dubrovnik, Neretva, Croatia
- Fatalities: 35
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Controlled flight into terrain. Contributing factors were command failure to comply with directives on non-DoD instrument approaches, planning errors and errors by the aircrew, and an improperly designed Dubrovnik NDB approach.
A USAF Boeing T-43A (737-200 variant) carrying US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and a business delegation was flying an NDB approach to Dubrovnik when it hit a mountainside about 1.8 NM north of the runway 12 threshold. The aircraft was high and fast at the final approach fix and tracked the wrong course after it. All 35 people on board were killed.