What the records say
- When
- 8 Feb 1989
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 36.97° N, 25.10° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 144
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Independent Air Flight 1851
1989 aviation accident in Portugal
On 8 February 1989, Independent Air Flight 1851, a Boeing 707 on an American charter flight from Bergamo, Italy, to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, struck Pico Alto while on approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores for a scheduled stopover. The aircraft was destroyed, with the loss of all 144 people on board, resulting in the deadliest plane crash in Portugal's history.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа Boeing 707 на Санта-Марии — крупнейшая в истории Португалии (144 погибших)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En la Isla de Santa María, (Portugal) se accidenta el Vuelo 1851 de Independent Air: fallecen sus 144 ocupantes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page