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Sabena Flight 548 was a Boeing 707 aircraft that crashed en route from New York City to Brussels, Belgium, on February 15, 1961, killing 73 people, including the entire U.S. figure skating team. The Boeing had had to abort its landing at Brussels because of an aircraft blocking one of the runways, and tried to climb and circle towards another one. It started banking dangerously, but the attempts to level its wings caused it to spiral rapidly down to the ground, where it crashed on a farm. The cause of the crash was never established, but is believed to have been a failure of the stabilizer-adjusting mechanism. It remains the deadliest plane crash to occur on Belgian soil, and the first fatal accident involving a 707 in regular passenger service. ==Flight details== Sabena Flight 548, registration OO-SJB, was a Boeing 707 aircraft that crashed en route to Brussels, Belgium, from New York City on February 15, 1961, killing the entire U.S. figure skating team on its way to the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The flight originated at New York International Airport, Anderson Field (now John F. Kennedy International Airport, then commonly known as "Idlewild") and crashed on approach to Brussels' Zaventem Airport. All 72 on board were killed, as well as one person on the ground (Theo de Laet, a farmer, was struck by debris). The crash was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 707 in regular passenger service, 28 months after it was placed into commercial use.〔Three 707s had crashed previously during training or test flights.〕 It is also the deadliest plane crash to occur on Belgian soil. () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sabena Flight 548」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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