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Independent Air Flight 1851
N7231T, the aircraft involved, seen at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in 1985 in a previous livery
Accident
Date
8 February 1989
Summary
Controlled flight into terrain during descent
Site
Pico Alto, Santa Maria Island, Azores 36°58′53″N25°05′28″W / 36.981475°N 25.091008°W / 36.981475; -25.091008
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 707-331B
Operator
Independent Air
IATA flight No.
ID1851
ICAO flight No.
IDN1851
Call sign
INDEPENDENT 1851
Registration
N7231T[1]
Flight origin
Orio al Serio Airport, Bergamo, Italy
Stopover
Santa Maria Airport, Santa Maria, Azores, Portugal
Destination
Punta Cana Airport, Dominican Republic
Occupants
144
Passengers
137
Crew
7
Fatalities
144
Survivors
0
On 8 February 1989, Independent Air Flight 1851, a Boeing 707 on an American charter flight from Bergamo, Italy, to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, struck Pico Alto while on approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores for a scheduled stopover. The aircraft was destroyed, with the loss of all 144 people on board, resulting in the deadliest plane crash in Portugal's history.[2] All of the passengers on board were Italian and all of the crew were Americans.[3][4] The crash is also known as "The disaster of the Azores" (Italian: Il disastro delle Azzorre).[5]
^"FAA Registry (N7231T)". Federal Aviation Administration.
^Ranter, Harro. "Aircraft accident Boeing 707-331B N7231T Pico Alto". aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
^Wise, Peter (9 February 1989). "144 ARE FEARED DEAD IN AZORES PLANE CRASH". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
^"The jet that crashed in the Azores Wednesday, killing..." UPI. 9 February 1989. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
^"Tragedia delle Azzorre, 20 morti Dopo 25 anni il ricordo è indelebile" [Tragedy in the Azores, 20 dead After 25 years, the memory is indelible]. L'Eco di Bergamo (in Italian). 14 February 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
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