Playback serverIf a title won’t play, switch servers.
Mayday
Season 4 · Episode 4
Missed Approach (Korean Air Flight 801)
7.445mMay 6, 2007
On 6 August 1997, the crew of Korean Air Flight 801 is unable to see the runway during final approach for a night landing in Guam. They initiate a missed approach, but the aircraft then flies into a low hill, killing 228 people. A combination of pilot error and the instrument landing system at Guam airport being temporarily out of service for maintenance work were blamed. AKA : Final Approach
Episodes
- Episode 1Miracle Escape (Air France Flight 358)
- Episode 2Falling from the Sky (British Airways Flight 9)
- Episode 3Fire Fight (Air Canada Flight 797)
- Episode 4Missed Approach (Korean Air Flight 801)
- Episode 5Hidden Danger (United Airlines 585, USAir 427 and Eastwind Airlines 517)
- Episode 6Panic Over The Pacific (China Airlines Flight 006)
- Episode 7Out Of Sight (1986 Cerritos mid-air collision)
- Episode 8Fog of War (1996 Croatia USAF CT-43)
- Episode 9Vertigo
- Episode 10Ghost Plane (Helios Airways Flight 522)