What the records say
- When
- 1 Dec 1981
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 41.75° N, 8.98° E
- Description
- Aviation accident
- Deaths
- 181
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308
1981 aviation accident in France
Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308 was a charter flight, operated with a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, which brought Yugoslav tourists to Corsica. On 1 December 1981, on its final approach, the plane crashed into Mont San Petru; all of the 180 passengers and crew died. The crash is the first, and the deadliest, major aviation accident involving an MD-80 model aircraft.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An Inex-Adria Aviopromet McDonnell Douglas MD-80 strikes a mountain peak and crashes while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Inex-Adria-Aviopromet-Flug 1308 prallt eine McDonnell Douglas MD-80 der jugoslawischen Inex Adria Aviopromet während des Landeanflugs auf Ajaccio, Korsika”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un DC-9 de la compagnie yougoslave Inex-Adria Aviopromet heurte le sommet du monte San Petru, causant la mort des 180 occupants de l'appareil”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “на подлёте к Аяччо (Корсика) разбился югославский самолёт MD-81, погибли 180 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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