November 2

On November 2, 1996, Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757 departing Lima for Santiago, plunged into the Pacific after maintenance-applied adhesive tape blocked its static ports. The tape rendered critical air‑data instruments unreliable, plunged the cockpit into conflicting warnings at night over open water, and set off a chain of errors and confusion that ended in the deaths of all 70 people on board. Read more