Loftleiðir Flight 001
1978 aviation accident in Sri Lanka / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Loftleiðir Icelandic Airlines Flight 001, was a flight chartered by a Douglas DC-8. The aircraft crashed on 15 November 1978, on approach to the international airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The crash killed 8 of the 13 Icelandic crew members, 5 reserve crew members, and 170 (mostly Indonesian) Muslim pilgrims from South Borneo out of a total of 262 passengers and crew.[1] The official report by Sri Lankan authorities determined the probable cause of the crash to be failure of the crew to conform to approach procedures; however, American[citation needed] and Icelandic authorities claimed faulty equipment at the airport and air traffic control error as the reasons for the crash.[2]
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Accident | |
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Date | 15 November 1978 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain caused by faulty airport equipment along with crew and ATC error |
Site | Katunayake, Sri Lanka |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF |
Aircraft name | Leifur Eiríksson |
Operator | Loftleiðir operating for Garuda Indonesian Airways |
IATA flight No. | LL001 |
Call sign | LIMA LIMA 001 |
Registration | TF-FLA |
Flight origin | Jeddah International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
Stopover | Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Destination | Juanda International Airport, Surabaya, Indonesia |
Occupants | 262 |
Passengers | 249 |
Crew | 13 |
Fatalities | 183 |
Injuries | 75 |
Survivors | 79 |
With 183 fatalities, the crash of Flight LL001 is the deadliest crash involving an Icelandic airline, and the second deadliest in Sri Lankan aviation history after Martinair Flight 138, another chartered DC-8, which crashed four years earlier.[1][2][3]