N88705

Safety history

• October 21, 1989AccidentHull loss

  Following an uneventful flight from Managua, the crew started a night descent to Tegucigalpa-Toncontin Airport. The standard approach to runway 01 consisted of a three-steps descent from the initial approach fix altitude of 7,500 feet. For unknown reasons, the crew failed to follow this procedure and started the descent prematurely and with a constant descent profile from a distance of 11 nm from the airport. This caused the aircraft to descend below the glide when, at an altitude of 4,000 feet,

  Boeing 727-200 · 131 fatalities

• January 14, 1972Accident

  Physical Impairment

  Boeing 707