Date: | December 07, 1983 |
Location: | Near Madrid, Spain |
Aircraft: | Boeing B-727-200 / DC9-32 |
Reg: | EC-CFJ / EC-CGS |
Airline: | Iberia Airlines / AVIACO |
Flight No: | 350 / 134 |
Fatalities: | 135 : 93 |
While taking off, the B-727 struck the DC-9 on the runway in poor visibility, fog and snow. Because of poor visibility and inadequate signs and markings the, DC-9 inadvertently wandered on the runway being used by the B-727 to take off. The airport had no ground radar. Fifty-one aboard the 727 and all 42 aboard the DC-9 were killed. Mexican actress, María "Fanny Cano" Damián, 39, among those killed. |