- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | December 07, 1983 |
Time: | 0940 |
Location: | Near Madrid, Spain |
Operator: | Iberia Airlines / Aviaco |
Flight #: | 350/134 |
Route: | Madrid - Rome |
AC Type: | Boeing B-727-200 / DC9-32 |
Registration: | EC-CFJ/EC-CGS |
cn / ln: | 20820 / 47645 |
Aboard: | 135 (passengers:120 crew:15) |
Fatalities: | 93 (passengers:87 crew:6) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | 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. |
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