- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | October 17, 1988 |
Time: | 0030 |
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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