What the records say
- When
- 4 Dec 1974
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 6.89° N, 80.49° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 191
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Martinair Flight 138
1974 aviation accident in Sri Lanka
Martinair Flight 138 was a charter flight of Martinair from Surabaya to Jeddah with a stopover in Colombo. On 4 December 1974, the Douglas DC-8 operating the flight crashed into a mountain in Sri Lanka shortly before landing, killing all 191 people aboard – 182 passengers, all of whom were Indonesian Hajj pilgrims, and nine crew members.
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