Date:	Thursday 20 December 1973
Time:	01:03
Type:	Boeing 707-330B
Owner/operator:	Lufthansa
Registration:	D-ABOT
MSN:	18463/363
Year of manufacture:	1964
Total airframe hrs:	41731 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 109
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	1 km from Delhi-Palam Airport (DEL) -   India
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Bangkok-Don Muang International Airport (BKK/VTBD)
Destination airport:	Delhi-Palam Airport (DEL/VIDP)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

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.

Civil aircraft accidents 1973 / Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, CAD, ASD
FUS Bericht 2X002-0/73

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