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You don’t need me to tell you how devastating a fire can be, especially if that fire is on board an aeroplane. For example your House was on fire, you can escape. If you are travelling on an airplane and an uncontrollable fire breaks out, you have nowhere to go. You are at the mercy of the skill of the pilots and clock to ensure your survival. Some of the most horrific air disasters that have ever occurred have involved inflight fires. Perhaps amongst the most devastating and terrifying cases in this category is the disaster we’re discussing today.
The era of history that we know as the Cold War, a lot of images probably spring to mind. The city of Berlin, today the German Capital, was pretty much at the epicenter of a division between East and West. The city itself was divided in two, the West side of the city, an exclave of West Germany within the east. A wall separated the two. This split was in part a result from the events of the Second World War. After the war the Soviet Union occupied the Eastern half of the city and indeed East Germany as a whole, aside from West Berlin. The Soviet Union wanted to expand their sphere of influence. East Germany became a puppet state like other countries in Eastern Europe
East Germany for this era of history was a separate country from the rest of Germany. It had all the things you’d expect a different country to have. Its own government, its own infrastructure, its own currency and of course to lead onto our topic today, its own airline. The East German airline was called Interflight or in German Interflug. Interflug operated between the years of 1958 and 1991 and were based out of what was known as the time as Berlin Schönefeld airport. As East Germany was under the influence of the Soviet Union, the aircraft they operated were Czech, Russian and Ukrainian made.
The Soviet Union throughout the 1950s and 1960s, much like other countries were developing their own aviation technology as things transitioned into the jet age. In 1963, the Soviet Union unveiled what was at the time, the largest passenger plane ever made. A four rear mounted engine jetliner called the Ilyushin IL-62.

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Sources:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/r...
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/stotte...
http://www.interflug.biz/DM-SEA.htm
https://www.airliners.de/vor-40-jahre...
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash...
http://www.if-interflug.de/Flotte/Unf...
https://www.cloverelectric.com/what-i....
https://www.tc.faa.gov/its/worldpac/t...
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