From kls Tue Aug 5 17:45:50 1997 Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners,misc.transport.air-industry,rec.travel.air Path: bounce-back Date: 05 Aug 97 17:45:50 From: kls@ohare.Chicago.NOSPAM.COM (Karl Swartz) Subject: Re: Korean Air 801 crashed on approach to Guam References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Chicago Software Works, Menlo Park, California >[A report claimed] the accident aircraft was HL7468. >That's a 747-3B5 (msn 22487 ln 605) with JT9D-7R4G2 engines, delivered >to KAL on December 12, 1984 after its first flight on December 3. Boeing has now confirmed this identification, noting that as of June 30, the aircraft had flown 49,526 hours and completed 8,340 cycles. It apparently substituted for the smaller A300 scheduled to operate the flight because a large team of athletes was to fly on the return flight to Seoul on their way to American Samoa. The flight carried 254 people, with 231 passengers (including three children and three infants) and a crew of 23. There appear to be at least 30 survivors, with more possibly alive in the wreckage. One survivor reportedly claimed there was no sign of any problem prior to the crash, which occurred at 2:35 am local time in heavy rain. NTSB chairman James Hall said the glide slope portion of the ILS was not functioning. -- Karl Swartz |Home kls@chicago.com |Work kls@netapp.com |WWW http://www.chicago.com/~kls/ Moderator of sci.aeronautics.airliners -- Unix/network work pays the bills