Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 · Illimani
On January 1, 1985, Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 (Illimani). 29 people died.
- Date
- January 1, 1985
- Place
- Illimani
- Operator
- Eastern Air Lines
- Killed
- 29
- Position
- 16.636°S, 67.789°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q3562643
From Wikipedia
Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was a scheduled international flight from Asunción, Paraguay, to Miami, Florida, United States. On January 1, 1985, while descending towards La Paz, Bolivia, for a scheduled stopover, the Boeing 727 jetliner struck Mount Illimani at an altitude of 19,600 feet (6,000 m), killing all 29 people on board.
The wreckage was scattered over a large area of a glacier covered with snow. Over the decades, several search expeditions were only able to recover a small amount of debris, and searches for the flight recorders were unsuccessful. The accident remains the highest-altitude controlled flight into terrain in commercial aviation history.
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