Flight Animation - 2004 Macedonian Government (Z3-BAB) crash

Accident Details:
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On February 26th, 2004 a Beechcraft Super King Air 200, registration Z3-BAB departed Skopje, North Macedonia on an official flight to Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, carrying 7 passengers, amongst them is Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia. Trajkovski was flying to Mostar with members of his government to take part in an economic conference.
The aircraft departed Skopje at 06:48am. At 07:46am, ATC Zagreb transferred the plane to ATC Mostar. At 07:51am the flight crew reported overhead IAF DIRUK. After IAF DIRUK, the flight crew performed a left turn for 180° and established heading 146°, at 4,700 feet. During last 60° of the turn the flight crew noticed that indications of DME and VOR were lost. The flight crew reported to ATC Mostar that they do not have indication of VOR. After 18 seconds the first officer confirmed to the captain that indicator VOR/DME has been established again and that everything is under control what was conveyed to ATC Mostar by the captain.
At a distance of 13 NM to VOR/DME MSR, after the approved by the captain, the first officer disengaged autopilot and had taken the control of the aircraft. After passing 7 NM to VOR/DME MSR the paircraft continued with descending on assigned radial 326. And 31 seconds later the aircraft reached the altitude of 1,810 feet (MDA). The first officer then asked for permission from the captain to continue with descent, of which the captain did not reply but ordered he first officer to increase engine power. The captain repeated for an increase in power before the aircraft impacted a mountainside near Mostar.
Probable Cause::
• Non-compliance with published approach procedure at Mostar airport, regarding distance and altitude, resulted in Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT).
Contributing Factors:
• Inadequate briefing of the flight crew for performing the flight.
• Check list was not consulted.
• Lack of Crew Resources Management (CRM) practice during flight.
• Flight crew decision to land at Mostar airport, despite cloud ceiling being below MDA.
• Flight crew decision to continue flight after loss of VOR/DME indication.
English subtitles added via Closed Captions.

[@alexhoe02]

English subtitles added (Closed Captions)

[@nothingbutplanes]

Pegasus 8622 CVR was leaked! I think this is real

[@alexhoe02]

@@nothingbutplanesI have seen!

[@nothingbutplanes]

​@@alexhoe02you have someone for subtitle this audio?

[@nothingbutplanes]

​@@alexhoe02btw, need some help for translating brazilian cvr's?

[@alexhoe02]

@@nothingbutplanespossibly

[@David-m8f1k]

In which minute did the pilot lose connection whit the outside?

[@ygorav]

7:12 sounds more like "Hey!"

[@NapojiMolerjo]

no

[@alexhoe02]

The captain said: “Ииј” which means “Oh” or “Ah”, in Macedonian it sounds like the letter “ee”.

[@ygorav]

@@alexhoe02 oh i see

[@ygorav]

@@alexhoe02 0:20 i can hear someone laughing in the background

[@santos122122]

@@alexhoe02 Correct it's an exclamation as a result of something unexpected happening.
Probably it was the moment he saw the hill in front of them a split second before they crashed into it.

[@christodec]

captain sounds drunk

[@alexhoe02]

It’s his accent, final report did not state he was under the influence.

[@Aviation-alarms]

This is in Mostar bosnia?

[@alexhoe02]

@@Aviation-alarms Yes :)

[@Aviation-alarms]

@@alexhoe02 oh I'm from Bosnia

[@Aviation-alarms]

I'm speak Mostar

[@Glizzyback]

I need the pilot's name

[@alexhoe02]

The names of the captain and first officer are not listed on the final report

[@jakejonathan4249]

Why is there no terrain ahead warning?

[@alexhoe02]

The aircraft was not fitted with EGPWS.