Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 21 DEC 1999 |
| Time: | ca 09:40 |
| Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 |
| Operating for: | Cubana de Aviación |
| Leased from: | AOM French Airlines |
| Registration: | F-GTDI |
| C/n / msn: | 46890/77 |
| First flight: | 1973-02-11 (26 years 11 months) |
| Total airframe hrs: | 85760 |
| Cycles: | 27331 |
| Engines: | 3 General Electric CF6-50C |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 18 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 296 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 314 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA) (Guatemala)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Int'l Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV/MUHA), Cuba |
| Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA/MGGT), Guatemala | |
| Flightnumber: | 1216 |
The aircraft overran the wet runway 19 on landing, went down a steep slope and crashed into 10 houses past the runway end.
Weather was reported to include a 360deg wind at 8 knots, 6nm visibility and cloud base at 2200 feet agl.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident is the result of an overshoot on a wet runway, with the crew failing to go around, followed by insufficient deceleration.
The overshoot happened after a visual stabilized approach with the use of PAPI." Events:
Sources:
» FAA
» Juan Carlos Munoz R.
» Norman E. Avila
» Steve Caisse
» Tommy Maurer
Official accident investigation report
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Map
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 Havana-José Martí International Airport to Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport as the crow flies is 1258 km (786 miles).
Distance from Havana-José Martí International Airport to Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport as the crow flies is 1258 km (786 miles).
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