Olympic Airways Flight 830

Olympic Airways Flight 830
	An Olympic Airways YS-11, similar to the aircraft involved
Accident
Date	23 November 1976
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain
Site	Servia, Greece
Aircraft
Aircraft type	NAMC YS-11A
Aircraft name	Isle of Milos
Operator	Olympic Airways
Registration	SX-BBR
Flight origin	Ellinikon International Airport, Athens, Greece
Stopover	Larissa National Airport, Larisa, Greece
Destination	Kozani National Airport, Kozani, Greece
Occupants	50
Passengers	46
Crew	4
Fatalities	50
Survivors	0

Olympic Airways Flight 830 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight in Greece from Athens to Kozani with a stop in Larisa. On 23 November 1976 it was being operated by a NAMC YS-11A turboprop airliner registered in Greece as SX-BBR when it collided at an altitude of 4,625 feet (1,410 m) with a mountain near Servia and crashed, killing all 50 on board.^[1]

Accident

When the aircraft was unable to land at Larissa due to bad weather it elected to fly directly to Kozani at an altitude of 5500 ft. The last radio contact was at 09:45 when the pilot reported he was about 15 nm South of Kozani on a heading of 318 degrees, he was given the weather forecast. At 10:19 with nothing heard from the aircraft the airport declared an emergency and it was discovered that Flight 830 had flown into a mountain at a height of 4265 ft near the village of Servia, the mountains were covered in cloud.^[1]

Investigation

Investigation showed that the aircraft was on a heading of 310 degrees when it first struck the ground, it disintegrated over the next 200 metres before becoming shortly airborne again, finally crashing at the foot of another hill. Fire had broken out after the initial impact and continued to burn for several hours destroying the aircraft. At the accident site the mountain above 3000 ft were covered in cloud.^[1]

Aircraft

The aircraft was a twin-engined NAMC YS-11A turboprop airliner registered SX-BBR with construction number 2156, it first flew on 12 April 1971 in Japan and was delivered to Olympic Airways on 28 April 1971.^[2]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c UK CAA Document CAA 429 World Airline Accident Summary p. 24/76
^ Roach/Eastwood 1990, p. 331

Bibliography

Roach, John; Eastwood, Tony (1990). Turbo Prop Airliner Production List. West Drayton, England: The Aviation Hobby Shop. ISBN 0-907178-32-4.

External links

AviationSafety Network report

[caa-1] UK CAA Document CAA 429 World Airline Accident Summary p. 24/76

[prop-2] Roach/Eastwood 1990, p. 331

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in Greece
1960s-1970s	El Al Flight 253 attack (December 1968) Olympic Airways Flight 954 (December 1969) Olympic Airways Flight 255 hijacking (July 1970) Lufthansa Flight 303 (December 1973) Olympic Airways Flight 830 (November 1976) Olympic Airways Flight 411 (August 1978) Swissair Flight 316 (October 1979)
1980s-1990s	Trans World Airlines Flight 847 (June 1985) TWA Flight 840 bombing (April 1986) Olympic Aviation Flight 545 (August 1989) Aerosvit Flight 241 (December 1997)
Since 2000	Malév Flight 262 (July 2000) Helios Airways Flight 522 (August 2005) Turkish Airlines Flight 1476 (October 2006) Meridian Flight 3032 (July 2022)
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