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On December 1, 1981, the McDonnell Douglas MD-81 took off from  Brnik Airport on a chartered flight from Slovenia (at the time Yugoslavia) to Corsica capital city of Ajaccio with 173 Slovenian tourists and 7 crew members. The tourists were on a 1-day trip to Corsica. When Flight 1308 reached the airspace around Ajaccio’s CAmpo Dell Oro Airport, it entered a holding pattern, awaiting clearance to land. The atmosphere in the plane was relaxed, with everybody already thinking of the day of leisure awaiting them on Corsica. At some point, the co-pilot even let his young son enter the cockpit.

While in its holding pattern, the MD-81 was instructed to descend through the minimum holding altitude of 6,800 feet. Weather was bad, visibility was close to zero and the aircraft was descending into the fog. As it descended, its Ground proximity warning sistem gave off several audio warnings, prompting the crew to increase the engine thrust. After some delay, the crew eventually did pull up. Their efforts, however, proved futile, as one of the wings of Flight 1308 collided with the summit of Mt. San Pietro and broke off. The aircraft then went into an uncontrolled dive and violently crashed on the other side of the mountain. All 180 people aboard were killed. The time of the accident was approximately 8 a.m. local time. Rescue operations were initially hampered by the fact that the air traffic control in Ajaccio wrongly believed the crash site to be located over sea.

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Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 was a Mc donell Douglas Dc-9  aircraft (registration YU-AHT) which exploded shortly after overflying  Hermsdorf, East germany, while en route from Stockholm  to Belgrade on 26 January 1972. The aircraft, piloted by captain Ludvig Razdrih, broke into two pieces and spun out of control, crashing near the village of  Srbska Kamenica in Czehoslovakia  (now the Czech republik). 27 of 28 of those on board were killed upon ground impact; but one crew member,Vesna Vulovic, survived.