ČSA Flight 475 was a domestic airmail service in Czechoslovakia from Prague to Bratislava. On 11 February 1977, the Avia 14 aircraft struck the ground during the Bratislava Airport approach, killing 4 of the 5 on board.
Accident The crew executed the approach to runway 22 with poor visibility. They descended below the minimum altitude and clipped through branches before colliding with the ground, less than two kilometers from the runway. Two crew members (Miroslav Meluš and Václav Šmíd) and two employees of Pošta-Košice 2 (Tibor Nagy and Imrich Štofan) died. The aircraft's captain survived.
Memorial In 2024, a memorial was built by graphic designer Miroslav Valček, a collaborator of the Ivanka Historical Society - the same association that built a monument for ČSA Flight 001.
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