On 5 March 1993, 29 years ago happened the second worst ever crash in the Macedonian history. A Fokker F100 aircraft with 79 passengers and 4 crew members owned by Palair Macedonian Airlines crashed shortly after take off from Skopje Petrovec Airport in that time to Zurich Kloten Airport.
The cause of the accident was loss of roll controllability due to the accumulation of ice on the wings of the aircraft. Also known as atmospheric icing, the ice accumulation caused the deterioration of lift force. Failure to adhere to the correct procedure for handling an atmospheric icing was also cited as one of the causes of the crash.
A total of 83 people, 79 passengers and 4 crew members, were killed in the crash while 14 people survived, including one flight attendant who was siting in the back. At the time, it was the deadliest plane crash in the country. It was surpassed a few months later on the same year when a Yakovlev Yak-42 by Avioimpex slammed onto a mountain near Ohrid. It was the deadliest aviation accident involving a Fokker F100 at the time it took place.
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