A horror plane crash saw 159 people killed instantly as the vehicle slammed into a frozen mountain side – with sick thieves pillaging the site just hours later.
The horrifying incident occurred 27 years ago today, on December 20, 1995, and saw just four passengers and a miracle dog survive the American Airlines Flight 956 crash in Colombia.
The flight was supposed to fly from Miami International Airport in the United States, taking 155 passengers to the Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport in Colombia, with many of them presumably travelling there for Christmas.
Guiding them was Captain Nicholas Tafuri, alongside First Office Donald Williams – but even they couldn’t stop the chaos which occurred, despite their almost 13,000 combined hours of flying experience.
The flight suffered from the fact that California’s air traffic controllers had no working radar to watch over the Boeing 757-223, as it had been destroyed by a terror attack in 1992.
