Avianca Flight 052 · Cove Neck
On January 25, 1990, Avianca Flight 052 (Cove Neck). 73 people died.
- Date
- January 25, 1990
- Place
- Cove Neck
- Operator
- Avianca
- Killed
- 73
- Injured
- 85
- Position
- 40.880°N, 73.495°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q783193
From Wikipedia
Avianca Flight 052 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bogotá, Colombia, to New York City, United States, via Medellín, Colombia, that crashed on January 25, 1990, at 21:34 (UTC−05:00). The Boeing 707 flying this route ran out of fuel after a failed attempt to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), causing the aircraft to crash onto a hillside in the small village of Cove Neck, New York, on the north shore of Long Island. Eight of the nine crew members and 65 of the 149 passengers on board were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the crash occurred due to the flight crew failing to properly declare a fuel emergency, failure to use an airline operational control dispatch system, inadequate traffic flow management by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the lack of standardized understandable terminology for pilots and controllers for minimum and emergency fuel states.
The flight left Medellín with more than enough fuel for the journey and progressed toward JFK normally.
Text from Wikipedia, “Avianca Flight 052”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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