Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 was a Boeing 747-2B5F, registered HL7451 and bound for Milano-Malpensa Airport, that crashed due to instrument malfunction and pilot error on 22 December 1999 shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport, an international airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in which local government district, in Essex, 30 mi northeast of Central London?
London Stansted Airport London Stansted Airport (IATA: STN, ICAO: EGSS) is an international airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in the local government district of Uttlesford in Essex, 30 mi northeast of Central London and 0.9 mi from the Hertfordshire border.
1956 Scottish Airlines Malta air disaster The 1956 Scottish Airlines Malta air disaster was an air accident that happened on 18 February 1956 when a Scottish Airlines Avro York crashed after take off from RAF Luqa in Malta on a trooping flight from the Suez Canal Zone to London Stansted Airport. The disaster killed 50 passengers and crew on board the aircraft, all the passengers except one (a British Army private) were Royal Air Force personnel.