Korean Air Lines Flight 015

Korean Air Lines Flight 015
	A KAL Boeing 747 similar to the aircraft involved in the accident
Accident
Date	19 November 1980
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and poor visibility
Site	Gimpo International Airport, Seoul, South Korea
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 747-2B5B
Operator	Korean Air
Registration	HL7445
Flight origin	Los Angeles International Airport
Stopover	Anchorage International Airport
Destination	Gimpo International Airport
Occupants	226
Passengers	206
Crew	20
Fatalities	15
Injuries	4
Survivors	211

Korean Air Lines Flight 015 was a Boeing 747-200 operating a scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles International Airport, in Los Angeles, California, to Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea with an intermediate stop in Anchorage, Alaska, that crashed while attempting to land on November 19th, 1980. Of the 226 passengers and crew on board, 15 were killed in the accident.^[1] The aircraft was damaged beyond repair.^[2]

Accident

The wind was calm with a visibility of 1,000 m in fog as the Korean Air Lines 747 made its approach to Runway 14 at Gimpo International Airport.^[3] The pilot reported trouble with the controls^[4] shortly before the aircraft touched down 90 metres short of the threshold and contacted an embankment slope. The aircraft's cargo compartment was ruptured after the main landing gear were pushed into it. Flight 015 slid down the runway on its belly and a fire broke out. The aircraft was evacuated but six crew and nine passengers were killed in the accident and four passengers had serious injuries.^[5]^[3]

Cause

Crashed short of runway due to crew error in low visibility weather.

References

^ "Korean Air Flight 015". Airdisaster.com. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "HL7445 Korean Air Lines Boeing 747-200". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b UK CAA Document CAA 429 World Airline Accident Summary (ICAO Summary 1/82)
^ "12 die as jet crash-lands in Korea". The Day, 19 November 1980.
^ Korean Air Flight 015. Aviation Safety Network

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[1] "Korean Air Flight 015". Airdisaster.com. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[2] "HL7445 Korean Air Lines Boeing 747-200". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved 31 March 2022.

[caa-3] UK CAA Document CAA 429 World Airline Accident Summary (ICAO Summary 1/82)

[4] "12 die as jet crash-lands in Korea". The Day, 19 November 1980.

[5] Korean Air Flight 015. Aviation Safety Network

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v t e Korean Air
Accidents and incidents	YS-11 hijacking (1969) Flight 902 (1978) Flight 015 (1980) Flight 007 (1983) Flight 084 (1983) Flight 858 (1987) Flight 803 (1989) Flight 175 (1989) Flight 2033 (1994) Flight 801 (1997) Flight 8702 (1998) Flight 1533 (1999) Cargo Flight 6316 (1999) Cargo Flight 8509 (1999) Flight 085 (2001) Nut rage incident (Flight 086) (2014) Flight 2708 (2016) Flight 631 (2022)
Services	Destinations
People	Cho Jung-hoon Cho Yang-ho Walter Cho
Subsidiaries	Jin Air Jin Air Green Wings
Other	Proposed merger with Asiana Airlines
This list is incomplete

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in South Korea
1960s	Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijacking (December 1969)
1980s	Korean Air Lines Flight 015 (November 1980) Korean Air Force C-123 crash (February 1982) CAAC Flight 296 (May 1983) Korean Air Flight 175 (November 1989)
1990s	Asiana Airlines Flight 733 (July 1993) Korean Air Flight 2033 (August 1994) Korean Air Flight 8702 (August 1998) Korean Air Flight 1533 (March 1999)
2000s	Air China Flight 129 (April 2002)
2010s	Asiana Airlines Flight 991 (July 2011)