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Saturday 6 July 2013 Asiana Airlines Boeing 777-28EER HL7742 c/n 29171

ISP Flight OZ214 from Seoul, South-Korea (ICN) to San Francisco (SFO) with 16 crew and 291 passengers. Approach to RW 28L with ILS glidepath unserviceable. 30° flaps with target threshold speed 137 kts. Autopilot was disengaged. On final approach speed dropped till only 112 kts close to stalling speed, caused by unintended deactivation by the PF of automatic airspeed control. The aircraft crash-landed just short of RW 28L. Crew did not sufficiently monitor flight speed. First flight : 25 February 2006

Airframe hrs : 37120 cycles : 5388 engines : PW4090. 3 people died in the crash and 48 seriously injured. location : +-10m 37°36’49.78”N 122°21’55.27”W

Saturday 8 March 2014 Malaysian Airlines 777-2H6ER 9M-MRO c/n 28420

ISP Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur (KUL) to Beijing (PEK) with 12 crew and 227 passengers. The aircraft went missing while cruising at cruise height in the direction of Vietnam. Suddenly the radar label disappeared from the radar screen. The transponder was switched off. The aircraft turned west, crossed Malaysia and then turned north-west through Malacca strait. Radar could not longer track the airplane and from then only seven SATCOM messages gave some clue that the aircraft was still in the air. It is believed the aircraft turned south after leaving Malacca strait. The aircraft was lost over the vast Indian Ocean without a trace. The ocean was searched by an international fleet of aircraft and ships from 18 March till 28 April 2014 but nothing was found. On 29 July 2015 a flaperon washed ashore at the French island of Reunion later established to be from MH370. Later more debris was found on the coast of south-east Africa. The real cause of this accident could not be determined. First flight : 14 May 2002. Airframe hrs : 53471 cycles : 7526 engines : RR Trent 892B. All people on board died in the crash. location : +- 1500 km 4°35’20”S 84°57’35”E

Thursday 17 July 2014 Malaysian Airlines 777-2H6ER 9M-MRD c/n 28411

ISP Flight MH17 from Amsterdam (AMS) to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) with 15 crew and 283 passengers. The aircraft was shot out the sky by a Russian Buk SAM missile while flying over Ukrainian airspace. The aircraft broke up in flight and debris was scattered over an area 50 square km between the villages Petropavlivka and Hrabove. First flight : 17 July 1997. Airframe hrs : 76322 cycles : 11434 engines : RR Trent 892B. All people onboard died in the crash.

location : Hrabove, Ukraine +-25km 48°08’53”N 38°35’55”E