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Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was a scheduled international flight from Asunción, Paraguay to Chicago, Illinois with stops in La Paz, Lima, Guayaquil, Panama City, and Miami. On January 1, 1985, it struck Mount Illimani at an altitude of . All 21 passengers and 8 crew were killed. ==Accident== On January 1, 1985, Eastern Airlines Flight 980 departed Asunción at 5:57 p.m. Onboard were 21 passengers and a crew of eight. The Miami-based cockpit crew consisted of Captain Larry Campbell, First Officer Kenneth Rhodes, and Flight Engineer Mark Bird. The cabin crew comprised five Chilean flight attendants based in Santiago: Paul Adler, Pablo Letelier, Marilyn MacQueen, Robert O'Brien, and Paula Valenzuela. The 21 passengers were from Paraguay, South Korea, and the United States. Among the passengers was the wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, Marian Davis, and two Eastern pilots flying as passengers. At 7:37 p.m. the pilot told controllers in La Paz he estimated landing at 7:47 p.m. Flight 980 was cleared to descend from 25,000 feet to 18,000 feet. At some point after this exchange, the aircraft steered significantly off the airway for unknown reasons, possibly to avoid weather. The accident occurred 25 miles from runway 9R at La Paz airport.〔()〕 Due to the extreme high altitude and inaccessibility of the accident location, the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were never recovered. 〔(Investigation of Controlled Flight into Terrain. Descriptions of Flight Paths for Selected Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) Aircraft Accidents, 1985-1997. ) by Robert O. Phillips. Federal Aviation Administration, U. S. Department Of Transportation, Project Memorandum DOT-TSC-FA9D1-99-01, March 1999.〕 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「Eastern Air Lines Flight 980」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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