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Date: | Sunday 27 January 1980 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing 720-059B |
Owner/operator: | Avianca |
Registration: | HK-725 |
MSN: | 18087/249 |
Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Quito-Mariscal Sucre Airport (UIO) -
Ecuador
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Quito-Mariscal Sucre Airport (UIO/SEQU) |
Narrative:The crew made an instrument approach in VMC weather to Quito. The aircraft landed too fast (143 knots instead of 123 kts) 300 m down the runway. The Boeing, named "Santander", overran the runway by 70 m and came to rest with the nosegear collapsed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Pilot misjudged speed and distance on landing and didn't follow the appropriate procedures to activate the emergency brakes.
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photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK); May 1974
photo (c) Georges Cozzika; Paris-Orly Airport (ORY/LFPO); 1962
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