Aircraft Accident Report: Uncontrolled Collision With Terrain American International Airways Flight 808, Douglas DC-8-61, N814Ck, U.S. Naval Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, August 18, 1993

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. National Transportation Safety Board
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Crash reports
  • Aircraft collisions
  • Recommendations
  • Operators (Persons)
  • Information dissemination
  • Aviation
  • Education and Training
  • Safety and Human Factors
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NTSB/AAR-94/04
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00664262
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. National Transportation Safety Board
• Abstract:
  This report explains the crash of American International Airways Flight 808, a DC-8-61, about 1/4 mile from the approach end of runway 10 at Leeward Point Airfield, U.S. Naval Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on August 18, 1993. The safety issues discussed in the report include flightcrew scheduling, the effects of fatigue on flightcrew performance, training on special airports, and the dissemination of information about special airports. Safety recommendations concerning these issues were made to the Federal Aviation Administration, American International Airways, Inc., and the Department of Defense.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/39132/dot_39132_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.58 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6732b6ae0a5a76839d9dacac4cf7d6b34eef5f2438eeb698f3ffb91f4a9e9674