delegation visiting the city and an emergency landing would harm the image of the country. He also claimed that Vienna airport offered an emergency landing permission but communist authorities rejected it. It is unclear how a surviving passenger would be aware of the captain's actions during the flight, or how searching for an alternate emergency landing site relates to an unstabilized approach with inadvertent thrust reversal deployment at Bratislava. See also List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft TABSO Flight 101 – Ilyushin Il-18B crash at Bratislava in 1966 References External links Information about the plane crash GoogleMap aerial view of Bratislava airport and accident site Airliner accidents and incidents caused by pilot error Aviation accidents and incidents in Czechoslovakia Aviation accidents and incidents in Slovakia Aviation accidents and incidents in 1976 001 1976 in Czechoslovakia Accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-18 July 1976 events in Europe