2001 Linate Airport runway collision
A map of Linate Airport. The blue line marks the path of the MD-87. The green line marks the intended path of the Cessna, while the red line shows its actual one. | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 8 October 2001 |
| Summary | Runway collision in poor visibility, inadequate taxiway signage, and disabled airport motion sensors |
| Site | Linate Airport, Milan, Italy 45°26′54″N 009°16′36″E / 45.44833°N 9.27667°E |
| Total fatalities | 118 |
| Total injuries | 4 |
| First aircraft | |
| Lage Viking, the MD-87 involved, seen at Zurich Airport, in 1999 | |
| Type | McDonnell Douglas MD-87 |
| Name | Lage Viking |
| Operator | Scandinavian Airlines System |
| IATA flight No. | SK686 |
| ICAO flight No. | SAS686 |
| Call sign | SCANDINAVIAN 686 |
| Registration | SE-DMA |
| Flight origin | Linate Airport Milan, Italy |
| Destination | Copenhagen Airport Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Occupants | 110 |
| Passengers | 104 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 110 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Second aircraft | |
| A Cessna Citation CJ2 similar to the one involved | |
| Type | Cessna Citation CJ2 |
| Operator | Air Evex: 174 |
| Call sign | DELTA INDIA ECHO VICTOR X-RAY |
| Registration | D-IEVX |
| Flight origin | Linate Airport Milan, Italy |
| Destination | Le Bourget Airport Paris, France |
| Occupants | 4 |
| Passengers | 2 |
| Crew | 2 |
| Fatalities | 4 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Ground casualties | |
| Ground fatalities | 4 |
| Ground injuries | 4 |
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 686, a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 airliner carrying 110 people bound for Copenhagen, Denmark, collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation CJ2: 1 business jet carrying four people bound for Paris, France, on 8 October 2001 at Linate Airport in Milan, Italy. All 114 people on both aircraft were killed, as well as four people on the ground.
The subsequent investigation determined that the collision was caused by several nonfunctioning and nonconforming safety systems, standards, and procedures at the airport.: 125 It remains the deadliest accident in Italian aviation history.