TAN-SAHSA Flight 414 · Tegucigalpa
On October 21, 1989, TAN-SAHSA Flight 414 (Tegucigalpa). 131 people died.
- Date
- October 21, 1989
- Place
- Tegucigalpa
- Operator
- SAHSA
- Killed
- 131
- Injured
- 15
- Position
- 13.954°N, 87.256°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q7682001
From Wikipedia
TAN-SAHSA Flight 414 was a scheduled flight from Juan Santamaría International Airport, San José, Costa Rica, to Toncontín Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with a stopover at Augusto C. Sandino Airport in Managua, Nicaragua, on 21 October 1989. Flown with a Boeing 727-200, the flight crashed into a mountain at 7:30 A.M. local time after the pilots failed to follow a special landing procedure required for the arrival to the airport. The crash killed 131 passengers, leaving 15 survivors (including all three pilots). While 20 passengers initially survived, five died before treatment, due to a delay in rescue personnel because of bad weather. It remains, as of 2025, the worst aviation accident on Honduran soil and in Central America at large; it is also the 15th deadliest involving a Boeing 727.
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