ELA flight 101

ELA flight 101 was a medium haul flight which was supposed to leave Imperia International Airport bound for Aria island. However it had a midair collision with NCAF flight 23, a military air patrol near The Island of No Return. The collision killed most of the Passengers and Crew of flight 101 and the navigator of flight 23.

Stats

ELA flight 101

aircraft: Boeing 757-300

crew: 6 (2 on flight deck, 4 stewards/stewardesses)

passengers: 30 (approx, ELA is yet to publish the full passenger manifest)

fatalities: 23 (pilot and copilot killed instantly during crash, one steward was sucked out of the aircraft along with 16 passengers, the rest were killed the instant the planes collided)

injuries: 8

survivors: 13

NCAF flight 23

aircraft: Mig-29KUB

crew: 2 (one pilot, one navigator)

payload: 2 Kh35 air to ground missiles, 2 Python air to air missiles, 4 general purpose bombs (the payload detonated when the planes collided)

fatalities: 1 (navigator was killed instantly by the detonation of the payload)

injuries: 1 (pilot was knocked out by debris when he ejected, but was rescued by the survivors of flight 101)

survivors: 1 (the pilot)