Korean Air Flight 803 · Tripoli International Airport
On July 27, 1989, Korean Air Flight 803 (Tripoli International Airport). 79 people died.
- Date
- July 27, 1989
- Place
- Tripoli International Airport
- Killed
- 79
- Position
- 32.887°N, 13.191°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q626003
From Wikipedia
Korean Air Flight 803 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air from Seoul to Tripoli via Bangkok and Jeddah. On 27 July 1989, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating the flight crashed while attempting to land in Tripoli, Libya. Out of the 199 passengers and crew onboard, 74 people were killed, and an additional six people on the ground were also killed. The accident was the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Libya at the time. It remains the third-deadliest accident in Libya, after Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 in 1992 with 159 fatalities, and Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 in 2009 with 103 fatalities.
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