Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 28 AUG 1971 |
| Type: | Ilyushin 18V |
| Operator: | Malev Hungarian Airlines |
| Registration: | HA-MOC |
| C/n / msn: | 181002903 |
| First flight: | 1961 |
| Engines: | 4 Ivchenko AI-20K |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 23 / Occupants: 25 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 32 / Occupants: 34 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | off Saltholm Island (Denmark)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Oslo-Fornebu Airport (FBU/ENFB), Norway |
| København-Kastrup Airport (CPH/EKCH), Denmark |
Flew into the sea, while descending too low during an instrument approach to runway 22L.
Events:
Sources:
» Soviet Transports
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Oslo-Fornebu Airport to København-Kastrup Airport as the crow flies is 487 km (304 miles).
Distance from Oslo-Fornebu Airport to København-Kastrup Airport as the crow flies is 487 km (304 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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