12 people die when jumbo jet crashes
NZPA-Reuter Seoul Twelve people died when a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 crashed and burst _ into flames at Kimpo Airport, Seoul, yesterday, an official government spokesman said. Kim Byong Hoon, director of the Seoul General Aviation Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said six crew members and six passengers died; 200 passengers and 14 crew members escaped. Fifteen people were injured. Reliable military sources said the Jumbo’s pilot had radioed that there was trouble with the aircraft controls shortly before he began his landing. They said that the initial investigation indicated that the aircraft touched an anti-aircraft gun emplacement as it approached the runway, plunged to a crash landing, tilted to one side and its wing hit a mili-
tary vehicle parked off the runway. The aircraft then skidded on its belly and burst' into flames.
It was the airline's worst disaster since it became a civilian airline in 1969 and the worst crash at Kimpo airport which opened in 1957.
The flight was arriving from Los Angeles via Anchorage, Alaska.
An American passenger, Sue Hachtmann, aged ,44, said she heard a loud bang when the plane was about 10m above the runway and smoke began to fill the aircraft. South Korea is under martial law and military authorities sealed off the airport soon after the crash, keeping reporters, photographers and others away.
Kimpo is about 16km from downtown Seoul and a South Korean military air base adjoins it.
12 people die when jumbo jet crashes
Press, 20 November 1980, Page 8
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