The plane , a Yakovlev Yak-42 , was carrying Bringing 108 passengers and eight crew , and crashed Catastrophe about east of Ohrid Airport .

On 17 December 1997 , the Yakovlev Yak-42 operating Being_in_operation the flight registered as UR-42334 flew Motion into a mountainside during a missed approach Arriving into Thessaloniki in Greece .

The crash Catastrophe was the third deadliest plane crash Catastrophe in Greece 's history , behind Olympic Airways Flight 954 and Helios Airways Flight 522 and was the fifth deadliest plane crash Catastrophe involving Cause_to_be_included a Yakovlev Yak-42 .

It was the 14th loss Earnings_and_losses of a Yakovlev Yak-42 .

It was surpassed Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale a few months later on the same year when a Yakovlev Yak-42 slammed Motion onto a mountain near Ohrid .