Aircraft Accident Report: Controlled Flight Into Terrain, Korean Air Flight 801, Boeing 747-300, HL7468, Nimitz Hill, Guam, August 6, 1997

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. National Transportation Safety Board
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Crash investigation
  • Air transportation crashes
  • Approach
  • Flight crews
  • Human factors
  • Warning systems
  • Accident investigations
  • Aircraft accidents
  • Approach
  • Controlled flight into terrain
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NTSB/AAR-00/01
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Guam
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. National Transportation Safety Board
• Abstract:
  This report explains the accident involving Korean Air flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, which crashed into high terrain at Nimitz Hill, Guam, on August 6, 1997. Safety issues in the report focus on flight crew performance, approach procedures, and pilot training; air traffic control, including controller performance and the inhibition of the minimum safe altitude warning system at Guam; emergency response; the adequacy of Korean Civil Aviation Bureau and Federal Aviation Administration oversight; and flight data recorder documentation. Safety recommendations concerning these issues are addressed to the Federal Aviation Administration, the Governor of the Territory of Guam, and the Korean Civil Aviation Bureau.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/40104/dot_40104_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.57 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6a104e1f1b856810397b4df9760424ec235ac7f9ec542e1ccaf59b11cd661cfe