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On October 4, 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft of the state-owned Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer (colloquially "Bijlmer") neighbourhood (part of ''Amsterdam-Zuidoost'') of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From the location in the Bijlmermeer, the crash is known in Dutch as the Bijlmerramp (''Bijlmer disaster''). A total of 43 people were officially reported killed, including the aircraft's three crew members, a non-revenue passenger in a jump seat, and 39 people on the ground.〔NASB final report, page 9〕〔 Many more were injured. The exact number of people killed on the ground is in dispute, as the building had a high concentration of undocumented immigrants. This accident remains the deadliest aviation incident to ever occur in the Netherlands. ==Fatal flight== On 4 October 1992, the cargo aircraft, a Boeing 747-258F, registration ''4X-AXG'', traveling from John F. Kennedy International Airport New York to Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel made a stopover at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. During the flight from New York to Schiphol, three issues were noted: fluctuations in the autopilot speed regulation, problems with a radio, and fluctuations in the voltage of the electrical generator on engine number three, the inboard engine on the right wing. The jet landed at Schiphol at 2:31 pm local time. New cargo was loaded into the aircraft; the cargo had been approved by customs authorities, but as was realized later, had not been physically inspected. The aircraft was refueled and the observed issues were repaired, at least provisionally. The crew consisted of Captain Yitzhak Fuchs, First Officer Arnon Ohad and Flight Engineer Gedalya Sofer. A single passenger was on board, traveling to Tel Aviv to marry an El Al employee. The captain was an experienced aviator, having flown as a fighter-bomber pilot in the Israeli air force in the late 1950s.〔Aloni, Shlomo. "Last of the fighting 'Wooden Wonders': The DH Mosquito in Israeli service" September/October 1999 article with photo in ''Air Enthusiast'' No. 83.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「El Al Flight 1862」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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