Date: | Tuesday 21 December 1999 |
Time: | 09:40 |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 |
Owner/operator: | Cubana de Aviación |
Registration: | F-GTDI |
MSN: | 46890/77 |
Year of manufacture: | 1973 |
Total airframe hrs: | 85760 hours |
Cycles: | 27331 flights |
Engine model: | General Electric CF6-50C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 314 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA) -
Guatemala
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV/MUHA) |
Destination airport: | Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA/MGGT) |
Investigating agency: | BEA |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The aircraft overran the wet runway 19 on landing, went down a steep slope and crashed into 10 houses past the runway end.
Weather was reported to include a 360deg wind at 8 knots, 6nm visibility and cloud base at 2200 feet agl.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident is the result of an overshoot on a wet runway, with the crew failing to go around, followed by insufficient deceleration.
The overshoot happened after a visual stabilized approach with the use of PAPI."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | BEA |
Report number: | Report f-di991221e |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
FAA
Juan Carlos Munoz R.
Norman E. Avila
Steve Caisse
Tommy Maurer
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
24 July 1987 |
TU-TAL |
Air Afrique |
1 |
Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA) |
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unk |
Location
Images:
photo (c) Juan Carlos Munoz R.; Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA); 21 December 1999
photo (c) Norman Avila; Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA); 21 December 1999
photo (c) Juan Carlos Munoz R.; Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA); 21 December 1999
photo (c) Juan Carlos Munoz R.; Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA); 21 December 1999
photo (c) Norman Avila; Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA); 21 December 1999
photo (c) Norman Avila; Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA); 21 December 1999
photo (c) Norman Avila; Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA); 21 December 1999
photo (c) Norman Avila; Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA); 21 December 1999
photo (c) Karl Krämer, via Werner Fischdick; München (MUC); May 1999
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