Korean Air Flight 801

The aircraft was on approach to the airport at Agana, Guam, when the radio altitude callouts began a sequential countdown: one hundred, fifty, forty, thirty, twenty. It struck Nimitz Hill, roughly three miles southwest of the airport, at an altitude of about 660 feet and 3.3 nautical miles out.

Date

1997-08-06

Deaths (Wikipedia list)

229

What the pin marks

The crash site on Nimitz Hill, Guam, as the cited page positions it.

Where the position is published

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: aviation, guam, approach, controlled flight into terrain

Coordinates: 13.45583, 144.732

Part of Airliner accidents that killed 200 or more people since 1970

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