| Date: | Sunday 29 March 1981 |
| Time: | 19:53 |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-1329 JetStar I |
| Owner/operator: | Alco Aviation |
| Registration: | N267L |
| MSN: | 5067 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4777 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT12A-6A Turbo Wasp |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | London-Luton Airport (LTN) -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Hassi Messaoud-Oued Irara Airport (HME/DAUH) |
| London-Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) | |
| Investigating agency: | AIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Touched down beyond the runway 08 touchdown zone, overran, became airborne over a 10 m deep escarpment and struck the ground. The JetStar was on a nighttime non-precision approach without sufficient visual reference following a flight from Lagos (LOS), Nigeria via Hassi Messaoud (HME), Algeria.
CAUSE: "The accident was caused by the commander's action in attempting a landing from a non-precision approach without sufficient visual reference."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
AIB AAR 6/82
Location
Images:
photo (c) Gordon Wilson; near London-Luton Airport (LTN); 30 March 1981
photo (c) Gordon Wilson; near London-Luton Airport (LTN); 30 March 1981
photo (c) Gordon Wilson; near London-Luton Airport (LTN); 30 March 1981
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport (HAM); December 1973
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