Investigation
The ATI technicians who participated in the inquiry commission stated that the aircraft had "belly-landed" on the terrain at over 400 kilometers per hour, causing the lower part of the fuselage to open, and during the slide on the rocky ground, everything inside spilled out. [3]
The pilot's communication stating that he was preparing for a visual landing (at the time, the airport was not equipped with radar equipment for traffic control or the Instrument Landing System) and the aircraft's altimeter, found among the wreckage indicating 1,450 feet (approximately 442 meters), the height of the crash site, led to the hypothesis of pilot error. [3]
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