What the records say
- When
- 23 Dec 1983
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 61.17° N, 150.01° W
- Description
- aviation accident in 1983
- Deaths
- 0
- Injured
- 6
- Cause
- runway incursion
1983 Anchorage runway collision
Aviation accident in 1983
On 23 December 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 084 (KAL084), a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF performing a cargo flight, collided during its takeoff roll with SouthCentral Air Flight 59 (SCA59), a Piper PA-31-350, on runway 06L/24R at Anchorage International Airport, as a result of the KAL084 flight crew becoming disoriented while taxiing in dense fog and attempting to take off on the wrong runway.
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