Douglas DC-8 LN-M00

13 January 1969 · Los Angeles, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes · Fatal

Summary

On 13 January 1969 at about 19:21 local time, a Douglas DC-8 registered LN-M00, operated by SAS, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Los Angeles, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes. 45 people were on board and 15 died, 17 were seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 13 January 1969 at 19:21
Classification: Accident
Location: Los Angeles, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-8
Registration: LN-M00
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: SAS
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Copenhagen, Denmark → S
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: B-0001

People

15 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
45	15	17	0	13

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

INADQT MONITORING OF ACFT POS DRG CRITICAL PHASEOF INST APCH RESULTED IN UNPLANNED DSCNT INTO WTR

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record B-0001, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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