AIR FLIGHT TO MEXICO https://blog.dnevnik.hr/air-flight-to-mexico

Miami International airport...05 March 1993.First flight 09/10/1992.On 03/01/2004 with SU-ZCF registration and FLASH AIRLINES colors ,weather was perfect (excellent visibility, 17 degrees C and a light breeze) when Flash Air flight 604 departed the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh for a flight to Paris-CDG with an intermediate stop at Cairo. On board were 135, mostly French, holidaymakers who were heading home.
At 04:38 the flight was cleared to taxi to runway 22R for departure. After takeoff, at 04:42, the plane climbed and maneuvered for a procedural left turn to intercept the 306 radial from the Sharm el-Sheikh VOR station. When the autopilot was engaged the captain made an exclamation and the autopilot was immediately switched off again. The captain then requested Heading Select to be engaged. The plane then began to bank to the right. The copilot then warned the captain a few times about the fact that the bank angle was increasing. At a bank angle of 40 degrees to the right the captain stated "OK come out". The ailerons returned briefly to neutral before additional aileron movements commanded an increase in the right bank.
The aircraft had reached a maximum altitude of 5460 feet with a 50 degrees bank when the copilot stated: "Overbank". Repeating himself as the bank angle kept increasing. The maximum bank angle recorded was 111 degrees right. Pitch attitude at that time was 43 degrees nose down and altitude was 3470 feet.
The observer on the flight deck, a trainee copilot, called "Retard power, retard power, retard power". Both throttles were moved to idle and the airplane gently seemed to recover from the nose-down, right bank attitude. Speed however increased, causing an overspeed warning. At 04:45 the airplane struck the surface of the water in a 24 degrees right bank, 24 degrees nose-down, at a speed of 416 kts and with a 3,9 G load.
The wreckage sank to a depth of approx. 900 metres.Aicraft was written off,148 people were killed.

First flight: October 9, 1992...

22/10/1992 TACA N373TA
28/05/1998 Color Air G-COLB
22/11/1999 ILFC N161LF
21/04/2000 Heliopolis Airlines SU-ZCE
17/05/2000 ILFC N221LF
10/07/2000 Mediterranean Airlines SU-MBA
23/06/2001 Heliopolis Airlines SU-ZCF
22/07/2001 Flash Airlines SU-ZCF

This aircraft crashed into the Red Sea after take off from Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, on January 3, 2004 killing all 142 passengers, many of them French tourists, and all 6 crew members. Flight 604 - destination Paris Charles de Gaulle - has the highest death toll of any aviation accident in Egypt, and the highest death toll of any accident involving a Boeing 737-300.

In 2002 Swiss aviation authorities performed a surprise inspection on SU-ZCF, a Flash Airlines Boeing 737-300. They discovered missing pilot oxygen masks, a lack of oxygen tanks, and inoperable cockpit instruments. The Swiss grounded the aircraft until Flash repaired the plane. Several days later Switzerland banned Flash. In addition, Poland banned Flash. Tour operators in Norway ceased contracting with Flash. The crash of Flight 604 led to an investigation that exposed poor safety measures and helped lead to the folding of Flash.

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