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{{Infobox aircraft occurrence
| name = Air Tavaris Flight 704
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| occurrence_type = Accident
| date = {{start date|2017|01|31}}
| summary = Impact of [[Space Debris Crisis|space debris]] to communications transponder and starboard wing causing loss of flight control
| site = Dondara, Zinia Province (now [[Provinces of Tavaris|Odai Province]]), Tavaris
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| aircraft_type = kAE 999-1
| aircraft_name =
| operator = Air Tavaris
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| ICAO = ATA704
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| origin = Rodoka International Airport, Lantaž, [[Tavari Rodoka|Rodoka]], Tavaris
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| destination = Zaram IV Intercontinental Airport, [[Nuvrenon]], Tavaris
| occupants = 177
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| crew =
| fatalities = 274
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| survivors = 0
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'''Air Tavaris Flight 704''' (also known by its call-sign '''ATA704''') was a regularly scheduled flight from Lantaž, [[Rodoka]] to Nuvrenon, [[Tavaris]] that, on January 31st, 2017, was struck by space debris from the [[Space Debris Crisis]] and crashed into a residential neighborhood in the city of Dondara in Zinia Province. All 177 people on board the plane were killed, as were 97 people who lived in homes impacted by the aircraft. The Co-Captain of the flight, Nevar Dravana Niktat, was the son of then-Tavari Prime Minister Aniríl Dravana Niktat. The crash occurred early in the morning - approximately 3:18 AM - on the same day as a general election. Dravana Niktat would lose re-election later that day to [[Šano Šonai Tuvria]]. The crash is the largest single mass casualty event, during peace-time, to occur in Tavaris in the 21st century. It is remembered not only for the connection to the Prime Minister but also for the recordings recovered from the flight recorder in which the flight crew led the passengers in reciting a popular [[Akronism|Akronist]] prayer, the "Canticle of the Benefactor."
==Timeline==
The aircraft was a kAE 999-1, built in [[Kuthernburg]]. Flight 704 was a "red-eye" flight, scheduled to arrive in Nuvrenon at 3:58 AM East Tavaris Time (UTC-8:00). Piloting the plane was Air Tavaris Captain Alenda Tovai Aštrovat, who had flown with the company for 24 years. Prior to her civilian flying career, she served her conscription in the Royal Tavari Air Force. She had attained the rank of Captain during her conscription, and was posthumously promoted to Major. The co-pilot was Nevar Dravana Niktat, who had been with Air Tavaris for two years. He had also served in the Air Force during his conscription, and was posthumously promoted from First Lieutenant to Captain.
The course of the flight was normal and uneventful until after the aircraft crossed into the Zinia Province Air Control Zone. That check-in, which was done by the aircraft's automated transponder, occurred at 2:26 AM. At some point between 2:26 AM and 2:57 AM, the transponder antenna and a few other communications components were struck by very small space debris, believed to be on the millimeter scale. The flight crew did not notice the malfunction in the transponder until 2:57 AM, when a flight attendant called the flight deck to inform the captain that the plane's onboard wifi had stopped functioning. (This was among the other components damaged by the initial strike.)
Unbeknownst to the flight crew, who had no radio communication ability, the [[Tavari Agency for Space
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Nevar Dravana Niktat selected the Canticle of the Benefactor, a traditional Akronist prayer that is said if one cannot make it to formal monthly services at a Temple. While formal Akronist doctrine does not use the Canticle of the Benefactor as a "last rite," or a prayer said in time of impending death, Matron [[
At approximately 3:15 AM, the kAE 999-1 crashed into the ground in the city of Dondara, Zinia Province. Nearly parallel with the ground, the plane swiped through several homes before coming to a stop. None of the homes had been evacuated, and the occupants of every home impacted by the plane perished in the crash. Air Tavaris Flight 704 is the only Tavari air disaster with a casualty count higher than the number of people on the plane, as 97 non-passengers lost their lives.
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