Uganda Airlines Flight 775

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Uganda Airlines Flight 775
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The aircraft involved in the accident is seen here at Fiumicino Airport in 1983.
Accident
Date17 October 1988 (1988-10-17)
Summary Pilot error in inclement weather
Site Rome-Fiumicino Airport, Rome, Italy
41°48′16″N12°15′03″E / 41.8044°N 12.2508°E / 41.8044; 12.2508
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBoeing 707-338C
Operator Uganda Airlines
IATA flight No.QU775
ICAO flight No.UGA775
Call signUGANDA 775
Registration 5X-UBC
Flight origin London Gatwick Airport, London, United Kingdom
Stopover Rome-Fiumicino Airport, Rome, Italy
Destination Entebbe Airport, Entebbe, Uganda
Occupants52
Passengers45
Crew7
Fatalities33
Survivors19

Uganda Airlines Flight 775 was a Boeing 707-338C, registration 5X-UBC, that crashed while attempting to land at Rome-Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy on 17 October 1988. [1] Out of the 52 occupants onboard, 33 were killed. [2] [3] [4]

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Flight

Flight 775 took off from London-Gatwick bound for Entebbe with an intermediate stop in Rome. While descending into Rome, the flight crew was given clearance for an ILS approach to runway 16L. Due to poor visibility, a missed approach was carried out. A second approach was attempted to runway 25. This too had to be abandoned due to weather conditions. The crew requested radar vectoring to runway 34L. The aircraft was established on the localiser but descended through minimum safe altitude. [5] The aircraft impacted with some trees, then crashed, broke into pieces, and burst into flames approximately 0.8 kilometres (0.50 mi) short of the runway. [6] [7] [8] [9]

One of the 19 survivors was a former Ugandan ambassador to the Vatican. [10]

Cause

The probable cause of the crash was determined to be:

"The crew's lack of adequate preparation in the procedure for a Non Precision Approach on runway 34L at Fiumicino Airport, especially in the matter of crew coordination and altitude callouts and their continued descent beyond MDA [5] without having located the runway visual markings."

The following factors may have contributed to the cause of the accident:

Part of the Board of Inquiry as well as the representative of the Ugandan CA, disassociated themselves from the majority, during the phase of identifying the factors that may have contributed to causing the accident." [1]

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  3. ↑ Sheridan, Mary Beth. "Uganda Airlines Jet Crashes In Fog While On Landing Approach". AP NEWS. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Uganda Airliner Crash In Italy Leaves 31 Dead". The New York Times. 18 October 1988. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Cos'è l'Altitudine Minima di Discesa - MDA e MDH" [What is the Minimum Descent Altitude - MDA and MDH]. Aviation Coaching (in Italian). 8 April 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Uganda jetliner crashes in Rome; 29 feared dead". The Modesto Bee. Associated Press. 17 October 1988. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2021– via Google News.
  7. ↑ "UN ERRORE, LO SCHIANTO, IL ROGO..." [AN ERROR, THE CRASH, THE BURNING...]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 18 October 1988. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  8. ↑ Lubega, Henry (27 October 2013). "Memories of 1988 Uganda Airlines plane crash in Italy". Daily Monitor . Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  9. ↑ Montalbano, William D. (17 October 1988). "Jetliner Crashes at Rome Airport; at Least 28 Killed: More Than 20 Believed to Survive as Uganda 707 on Flight From London Falls Short of Runway in Fog". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  10. ↑ "Uganda jet crashed on third landing attempt". The Daytona Beach News-Journal. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  11. ↑ "Uganda Airlines Rome crash: What happened that day?". New Vision . Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
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