C-GMXQ (Icelandair-AH) - a photo on Flickriver

            C-GMXQ - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 -  Icelandair 
(leased from Nationair Canada in full Nationalair colours with additional "leased to Air Algerie - titles)
c/n 45.982 - built in 1968 for Eastern Air Lines
at Paris-Orly Airport (ORY) in Summer 1986 

leased to Icelandair and sub-leased to Air Algerie in 1986

crashed 07.11.91 at Jeddah/Saudi Arabia while on wet-lease to Nigeria Airways The aircraft departed Jeddah-KAIA (JED) bound for Kano - Sadiq Abubakar III International Airport (SKO) on a Haji-related charter-flight - problems were reported shortly after take-off. The crew attempted to return to the airport of departure for an emergency landing , but the aircraft caught fire and crashed short of the runway. All 261 occupants on board —of whom 247 were passengers— perished in the accident. The cause of the crash was found to be under-inflated tires that overheated, subsequently catching fire. The fire spread to the cargo hold, causing a failure of hydraulic systems and an eventual in-flight break-up of the aircraft short of making an emergency landing.

The accident remains the deadliest one involving a DC-8 as well as the deadliest one involving a Canadian aircraft.

scanned from Kodachrome-slide

Taken in: France / Île-de-France / Paray-Vieille-Poste (show map)

Taken on: January 9, 2014

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