Faucett Flight 251 was a flight that crashed February 29, 1996 at Peruvian time at Arequipa, Peru. The airplane was a Boeing 737, with the registration OB-1451, built in 1968. All 123 people on board died in the accident: 2 Canadians, 42 Chileans, 3 Belgians, 2 Bolivians, 1 Brazilian, 1 Argentinian and 72 Peruvians.
The accident was a controlled flight into terrain: the aircraft crashed into terrain while attempting to land. The crew had been issued an outdated altimeter setting after bypassing an ILS signal, which made it fly 1000 ft. under the real reading; also the plane was overloaded adding to all that the darkness of hour and the heavy fog remaining at the time over the mountains. The aft section broke on impact and the main fuselage section overturned.
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