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Asiana Air Flight 733 (OZ733, AAR733) was an Asiana Airlines passenger flight between Seoul, South Korea and Mokpo that crashed into Mt. Ungeo at 800 feet on July 26, 1993. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-5L9 with registration number HL7229, failed to land twice in bad weather and crashed on the third attempt, causing the deaths of 66 passengers and 2 crew; there were 38 survivors.

Many of the passengers consisted of families with children who planned to vacation in southern Korea for the summer holiday. The pilot, Hwan In-ki, died in the crash. Chung Jong-hwan, the director general of the Ministry of Transportation, said that Hwan's actions caused the crash.^[1]

Flight 733 had the highest death toll of any aviation accident in South Korea at that time. It was surpassed by Air China Flight 129, which crashed on April 15, 2002 with 129 fatalities. It was also the highest death toll of any accident involving a Boeing 737-500 at that time, but was surpassed on September 14, 2008 by the 88 who died in the crash of Aeroflot Flight 821.

References

External links

• Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network
• Planecrashinfo.com
• Aircraft Crashes record office
• Airdisaster.com
• Airsafe.com

← 1992 Aviation accidents and incidents in 1993 1994→ TACA Flight 510 (April 6) — Japan Air System Flight 451 (April 18) — China Eastern Airlines Flight 583 (April 6) — Indian Airlines Flight 491 (April 26) — China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 (July 23) — Asiana Airlines Flight 733 (July 26) — Lufthansa Flight 2904 (September 14) — Transair Georgia airliner shootdown (September 21) — Transair Georgia airliner shootdown (September 22) — Transair Georgia airliner attack (September 23) — China Eastern Airlines Flight 5398 (October 26) — China Airlines Flight 605 (November 4) — China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 (November 13) — Auckland mid-air collision (November 26) Bold blue indicates incidents resulting at least 50 deaths (current article is always in bold black) Red indicates the deadliest incident in 1993