Korean Air Lines Flight 015 [SEP] point in time
Korean Air Lines Flight 015
Korean Air Lines Flight 015 was a Boeing 747 operating a scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles International Airport, in Los Angeles, California, to Kimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea with an intermediate stop in Anchorage, Alaska, that crashed while attempting to land on 19 November 1980. Of the 226 passengers and crew on board, 15 were killed in the accident.
Accident.
The wind was calm with a visibility of 1,000 m in fog as the Korean Air Lines 747
13 people on board.
- Delta Air Lines orders 60 Boeing 757s, the largest single order to this time for a single airliner type.
- November 19 – Korean Airlines Flight 015, a Boeing 747-2B5B (registration HL7445) carrying 212 people, lands 90 meters (295 feet) short of the runway at Kimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, and strikes an embankment. Its main landing gear collapses backward and penetrates its cargo compartment, where sparks start a fire while the plane slides down the