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Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 was a Boeing 747-2B5F, registered HL7451, that crashed due to pilot error in 1999. On 22 December 1999, shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport at 18:36, Flight 8509 plunged into the ground at a speed in between 250 and 300 knots, 40 degrees nose down pitch and 90 degrees bank to the left. The aircraft crashed into Hatfield Forest near the village of Great Hallingbury at 18:38, 2 minutes after take-off, killing all 4 crew onboard. ^[1][2]

The aircraft

The aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-2B5F freighter registered HL7451. Built on 4 April 1980, the aircraft had completed 15,451 flights with a total flight time of 83,011 hours before its fatal flight on 22 December 1999.

References

External links

• Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 incident report

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