- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: October 17, 1988
Time: 00:30
Location: Rome, Italy
Operator: Uganda Airlines
Flight #: 775
Route: London - Rome
AC Type: Boeing B-707-338C
Registration: 5X-UBC
cn / ln: 19630/746
Aboard: 52   (passengers:45  crew:7)
Fatalities: 33   (passengers:26  crew:7)
Ground: 0
Summary: Undershot runway and hit a building while performing a third landing attempt in fog. The crew's lack of adequate preparation in the procedure for a non-precision approach, especially in crew coordination, altitude callouts and their continued descent beyond MDA without having located the runway visual markings. Crew fatigue.
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