";s:4:"text";s:3083:" Won Pat Guam International Air Terminal. 1. Because of the unavailability of the ILS glide slope system (due to upgrading of the system), a VOR/DME approach was flown.
WRECKAGE: The Korean Air Flight 801 wreckage is shown in the National Transportation Safety Board report of the accident on Aug. 6, 1997, on a remote area on Nimitz Hill, Guam. 1. The weather was bad, but not too bad. On August 6, 1997, about 0142:26 Guam local time, Korean Air flight 801, a Boeing 747-3B5B (747-300), Korean registration HL7468, operated by Korean Air Company, Ltd., crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam. Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers: The Story of Success, writes extensively on the Guam disaster (KAL 801). After the flight crew made an initial sighting of Guam, Korean Air flight 801 encountered instrument meteorological conditions as the flight continued on its approach to Guam International Airport. Factual Information. In his analysis of the accident, he contends that the Korean language itself may have hindered effective cockpit communication. 6 August 1997 - Korean Air 801 The aircraft, a Boeing 747-300 with registration HL7468, was conducting a night-time approach to Guam runway 06L. Photo: MosheA, CC BY-SA 4.0. Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801) crashed on August 6, 1997, on approach to Antonio B. 1. Won Pat International Airport, Guam (a United States insular area).. Synopsis.
South Korean officials told the Associated Press that another pilot on the flight, Lee Jeong-min, had 12,390 hours of flight experience and 3,220 hours on a 777. How, then, was it achieved? Headed by 42-year old Captain Park Yong-chul (Hangul: 박용철, RR: Bak Yong-cheol, M-R: Pak Yongch'ŏl), who had recently won a flight safety award for negotiating a 747 engine failure. It was the tower controller that issued the landing clearance and subsequently asked the approach controller if the flight had come back to him since has didn’t see him land. The captain was pilot-flying. 1.1 History of Flight. I think you have the conversation between the approach controller and tower controller reversed. 254명의 탑승자 중 26명이 생존하였다. The plane was in good condition. It hit high terrain three miles short of the runway.