Bucharest - Oradea

On February 4, 1970 at 01:45 PM, Bucharest - Oradea experienced a crash involving Antonov AN-24, operated by TAROM - Transporturile Aeriene Române, with the event recorded near Mt Vladeasa Cluj.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

21 people were known to be on board, 20 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 95.2%.

Crew on board: 6, crew fatalities: 6, passengers on board: 15, passenger fatalities: 14, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew departed Bucharest-Otopeni Airport at 1300LT bound for Oradea. While descending in poor weather conditions, the airplane struck tree tops, stalled and crashed in a snow covered hill located in the Vladeasa Mountain Range, about 73 km southeast of Oradea Airport. The wreckage was found three days later and a passenger was found alive while 20 other occupants were killed. The survivor told rescuers that at least eight other people survived the crash but later died due to extreme low temperature.

Aircraft reference details include registration YR-AMT, MSN 7 73 033 10, year of manufacture 1967.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 46.7896°, 23.5646°.