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Airbus A300B4-100 accident report
Newspaper article comment : All 247 passengers survive plane crash – All 247 passengers emerged alive from this plane wreckage, which crashed near the Malaysian capital last night just before landing. The aircraft, an Airbus-300, ran into difficulties during bad weather and fell into a swamp one kilometres before the runway. There it broke into two-parts and burst into flames. According to the airport authorities, it took the crew only a few minutes to get all the occupants out of the cabin; 27 of them are injured. The cause of the air disaster was not yet known last night.
Sunday 18 December 1983 Malaysian Airlines System A300B4-120 OY-KAA c/n 122 leased from SAS.
Flight MH684 from Singapore (SIN) to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) with 14 crew and 233 passengers. First flight : 07 October 1980. Approaching RW15 KUL apt. on ILS in heavy rain it descended to low and impacted ground and ended in a swamp 1200 [m] short of the runway. Everybody could get out of the plane alive, only 27 people were injured.
Airframe hrs : 3907 engines : P&W JT9D-59A.
location : 1.2km NNW from KUL apt. +-100 [m] 2°44’48”N 101°40’17”E
SAS Airbus A300B4-120 OY-KAA c/n 122 it crashed in 1983 when it was leased to Malaysian Airlines. Engines JT9D-59A.
No fatal accidents happened with an A300B4-100
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