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Problems relating to one of the plane’s engine had caught the pilots off guard. Confusion began to mount on the flight deck as the pilots attempted to troubleshoot the problems with their plane. Things went from bad to worse as it appeared there were failures of not one but two engines. But how did things get to this point, that is what we’re going to investigate in this video. The timeline of events of Monday, June 23rd, 1969.
The Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic has long struggled to sustain a National Flag Carrying Airline. It didn’t used to be this way as Dominicana de Aviacion served as the country’s national air carrier between the years of 1944 and 1995. For 51 years, the airline carried passengers and cargo from the Dominican Republic to many countries in the Americas and even Europe, flying out from their bases in Santo Domingo and Puerto Plata.

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