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Linate Airport disaster Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 686 · Air Evex D-IEVX
A map of Linate Airport. The blue line marks the path of the MD-87. The green line marks the intended path of the Cessna, while the red line shows its actual one.
Accident
Date
8 October 2001; 22 years ago (2001-10-08)
Summary
Runway collision in poor visibility and inadequate taxiway signage
Lage Viking, the MD-87 involved, seen at Copenhagen Airport, in 2000
Type
McDonnell Douglas MD-87
Name
Lage Viking
Operator
Scandinavian Airlines System
IATA flight No.
SK686
ICAO flight No.
SAS686
Call sign
SCANDINAVIAN 686
Registration
SE-DMA
Flight origin
Linate Airport Milan, Italy
Destination
Copenhagen Airport Copenhagen, Denmark
Occupants
110
Passengers
104
Crew
6
Fatalities
110
Survivors
0
Second aircraft
A Cessna Citation CJ2 similar to the one involved
Type
Cessna Citation CJ2
Operator
Air Evex[1]: 174 [2]
Call sign
DELTA INDIA ECHO VICTOR X-RAY
Registration
D-IEVX
Flight origin
Linate Airport Milan, Italy
Destination
Le Bourget Airport Paris, France
Occupants
4
Passengers
2
Crew
2
Fatalities
4
Survivors
0
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities
4
Ground injuries
4
The Linate Airport disaster occurred in Italy at Linate Airport in Milan on the morning of Monday, 8 October 2001. Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 686, a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 airliner carrying 110 people bound for Copenhagen, Denmark, collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation CJ2[1]: 1 business jet carrying four people bound for Paris, France. All 114 people on both aircraft were killed, as well as four people on the ground.[3][4][5]
The subsequent investigation determined that the collision was caused by several nonfunctioning and nonconforming safety systems, standards, and procedures at the airport.[1]: 125 It remains the deadliest accident in Italian aviation history.[4]
^ abc"Accident Boeing MD-87 SE-DMA Cessna 525-A D-IEVX Milano Linate airport October 8, 2001" (PDF). National Agency for the Safety of Flight. 20 January 2004. A-1-04. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^"ANSV final report, appendix I" (PDF). ANSV. 20 January 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^"114 die when jet hits plane, then rams building in Milan". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA). Associated Press. 8 October 2001. p. A2.
^ ab"Planes collide on Italian runway; 114 are killed". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon, USA). Associated Press. 9 October 2001. p. 10A.
^"Wrong turn by Cessna likely caused Italy crash". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA). Associated Press. 9 October 2001. p. A4.
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