Korean Air Flight 801
The aircraft involved in the incident, HL7468 in 1985
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| Occurrence summary | |
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| Date | August 6, 1997 |
| Summary | Insufficient pilot training, CFIT, Pilot error |
| Site |
13°27.35′N 144°43.92′E / 13.45583°N 144.73200°ECoordinates: 13°27.35′N 144°43.92′E / 13.45583°N 144.73200°E |
| Passengers | 237 |
| Crew | 17 |
| Fatalities | 228 |
| Injuries (non-fatal) | 25 |
| Survivors | 26 |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 747-3B5 |
| Operator | Korean Air |
| Registration | HL7468 |
| Flight origin | Gimpo International Airport |
| Destination | Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport |
 Photos of HL7468 at Airliners.net
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Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801) crashed on August 6, 1997, on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, in the United States territory of Guam, killing 228 of the 254 people aboard.
Flight 801 was normally flown by an Airbus A300; since Korean Air had scheduled the August 5–6 flight to transport Guamanian athletes to the South Pacific Mini Games in American Samoa, the airline designated HL7468, a 12-year-old Boeing 747-300 delivered to Korean Air on December 12, 1984, to fly the route that night. The aircraft crashed on Nimitz Hill in Asan, Guam, while on approach to the airport.
Flight 801 departed from Seoul-Kimpo International Airport (now Gimpo Airport) at 8:53 p.m. (9:53 p.m. Guam time) on August 5 on its way to Guam. It carried two pilots, a flight engineer, 14 flight attendants, and 237 passengers, a total of 254 people. Of the passengers, three were children between the ages of 2 and 12 and three were 24 months old or younger. Six of the passengers were Korean Air flight attendants who were deadheading.
The flight was under the command of 42-year-old Captain Park Yong-chul (Korean: 박용철, Hanja: 朴鏞喆, RR: Bak Yong-cheol. M-R: Pak Yongch'ŏl) The captain had close to 9,000 hours of flight time and had recently received a Flight Safety Award for negotiating a 747 engine failure at low altitude. Park had originally been scheduled to fly to Dubai, United Arab Emirates; since he did not have enough rest for the Dubai trip, he was reassigned to Flight 801. The first officer was 40-year-old Song Kyung-ho (Korean: 송경호, RR: Song Gyeong-ho, M-R: Song Kyŏngho), who had more than 4,000 hours' flying experience, and the flight engineer was 57-year-old Nam Suk-hoon (Korean: 남석훈, RR: Nam Seok-hun, M-R: Nam Sŏkhun), a veteran pilot with more than 13,000 flight hours.
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