HL7451, the 747 involved in the accident, in 1992.
Accident
Date
22 December 1999
Summary
Crashed after take off due to pilot error caused by instrument failure compounded by poor CRM
Site
Great Hallingbury, England, United Kingdom 51°51′23″N0°12′59″E / 51.85639°N 0.21639°E / 51.85639; 0.21639[1]
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 747-2B5F
Operator
Korean Air Cargo
IATA flight No.
KE8509
ICAO flight No.
KAL8509
Call sign
KOREAN AIR 8509
Registration
HL7451
Flight origin
Gimpo International Airport, Seoul, South Korea
1st stopover
Tashkent International Airport, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2nd stopover
London Stansted Airport, England, United Kingdom
Destination
Milan Malpensa Airport, Milan, Italy
Occupants
4
Passengers
0
Crew
4
Fatalities
4
Survivors
0
Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 was a Boeing 747-2B5F, registered HL7451 bound for Milan Malpensa Airport, that crashed due to instrument malfunction and pilot error on 22 December 1999 shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport where the final leg of its route from South Korea to Italy had begun. The aircraft crashed into Hatfield Forest near the village of Great Hallingbury, close to, but clear of, some houses. All four crew members on board were killed.[2][3]
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^"Report on the accident to Boeing 747-2B5F, HL-7451 near London Stansted Airport on 22 December 1999" (PDF). Air Accident Investigation Branch. June 2003. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
^"Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 incident report". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
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