The plane crashe occurred on November 27, 1983. Boeing 747 was on an international scheduled passenger flight from Frankfurt to Bogota, with stops in Paris, Madrid, and Caracas, and most of the passengers were French nationals. The plane crashed near the small town of Mejorada del Campo, approximately eight miles from Madrid, and witnesses claimed the aircraft smashed into a field after veering to miss houses, before bursting into flames. The aircraft, which took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport at 10.25pm on November 26, was bound for Madrid, but during the approach to the runway the plane hit three different hills on its way down. Of the 181 people killed, 23 were crew members, although four of these were off duty. Miraculously, 11 people survived the crash, which was judged to be caused by human error due to the captain incorrectly judging the plane's position.
The crash was Avianca Flight 11 on Nov 27, 1983. 181 killed and 11 survived. Just 10 days later a Boeing 727 struck a DC-9 at Madrid airport on the ground while attempting takeoff. Not a good time for Spanish aviation. I remember when Connie Chung was still a local newscasters in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Even then most knew she was going a lot of places in her career.
I remember how much Connie Chung absolutely detested Dan Rather when they were co-anchors of the CBS Evening News in the late 1990s--Rather resented sharing the limelight with anyone else and also hated Ms. Chung
