An Eastern Boeing 727-200 similar to the one involved in the accident
Accident
Date
January 1, 1985
Summary
Controlled flight into terrain for unknown reasons
Site
Mount Illimani, Bolivia 16°38′10″S67°47′21″W / 16.63611°S 67.78917°W / -16.63611; -67.78917
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 727-225 Advanced
Operator
Eastern Air Lines
IATA flight No.
EA980
ICAO flight No.
EAL980
Call sign
EASTERN 980
Registration
N819EA
Flight origin
President Stroessner International Airport, Asunción, Paraguay
1st stopover
El Alto International Airport, La Paz, Bolivia
Last stopover
Simón Bolívar International Airport, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Destination
Miami International Airport, Florida, U.S.
Occupants
29
Passengers
19
Crew
10
Fatalities
29
Survivors
0
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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