20 years later: remembering Korean Air Flight 801 in GUAM

On Aug. 6, 1997, a Boeing 747-300 crashed into high terrain at Nimitz Hill, approximately 3 miles southwest of its destination en route to land at A.B. Won Pat International Airport.

The flight had departed from Kimpo International Airport in Seoul with 2 pilots, 1 flight engineer, 14 flight attendants, and 237 passengers on board, according to the National Transportation Safety Board's aircraft accident report.

Of the 254 on board, 228 were killed, and 26 survived with serious injuries.

The plane itself was destroyed in the impact and resulting fire. The crash left an 89-foot ground scar and a wreckage area 2,100 feet long by 400 feet wide.

The cause of the crash was attributed to failure to adequately brief and execute a non-precision approach, and the Federal Aviation Administration's intentional inhibition of the minimum safe altitude warning system at Guam, the report showed. Additional factors at play were a fatigued captain, who was originally scheduled to fly to Dubai but due to lack of rest was assigned to a shorter Guam flight, and inadequate flight crew training.

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