What the records say
- When
- 27 Jul 1989
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 32.89° N, 13.19° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 72
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Korean Air Flight 803
1989 aviation accident
Korean Air Flight 803 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air from Seoul to Tripoli via Bangkok and Jeddah. On 27 July 1989, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating the flight crashed while attempting to land in Tripoli, Libya. Out of the 199 passengers and crew onboard, 74 people were killed, and an additional six people on the ground were also killed.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Korean Air Flight 803 crashes on approach to Tripoli International Airport, 74 of the 199 people on board the plane were killed, as well as six people on ground”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа DC-10 в Триполи, погибли 80 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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