Status:	Final
Date:	20 DEC 1973
Time:	00:33
Type:	Boeing 707-330B
Operator:	Lufthansa
Registration:	D-ABOT
C/n / msn:	18463/363
First flight:	1964
Total airframe hrs:	41731
Engines:	4 Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B
Crew:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 11
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 98
Total:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 109
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	near Delhi (India)
Phase:	Approach (APR)
Nature:	International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Bangkok-Don Muang International Airport (BKK/VTBD), Thailand
Destination airport:	Delhi (unknown airport), India

Narrative:
The aircraft undershot the Delhi runway and collided with the Middle Marker building.

PROBABLE CAUSE: Deviation from the approved established procedure and failure to exercise adequate monitory control and supervision of the flight and to initiate a timely go-around action. Contributory factors were lack of adequate weather information and optical illusion created by a haze/fog layer upto ca. 200ft above ground level.

Events:

Sources:
» FUS Bericht 2X002-0/73