- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | June 14, 1972 |
Time: | 2020 |
Location: | Near New Delhi, India |
Operator: | Japan Air Lines |
Flight #: | 471 |
Route: | Bangkok - Delhi |
AC Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-53 |
Registration: | JA8012 |
cn / ln: | 45860/213 |
Aboard: | 87 (passengers:76 crew:11) |
Fatalities: | 82 (passengers:72 crew:10) |
Ground: | 4 |
Summary: | The aircraft crashed short of the runway. Indian officials claimed the crash was caused by a disregard for prescribed procedures in abandoning all instrument references before making visual contact with the runway. Japanese investigators claimed a false glide path signal was responsible for the descent into terrain. |
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