Dates

Event

1970

Constructed as a DC-8-61.

2 February 1970

To Japan Air Lines with new c/r JA8042.

Photographer: EX/ZX Collection

15 July 1987

To Trans International Airlines with new c/r N25UA.
Leased to Air Algerie July 1987 to September 1987.

Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
Notes: At Stansted Airport in the UK

Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
Notes: At Ft.Lauderdale International, Florida

January 1990

To Trans Continental Airlines with new c/r N821TC.

1 December 1991

To Connie Kalitta Services keeping c/r N821TC.

Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
Notes: At Orlando International, Florida

3 March 1993

To American International Airways Inc DBA, Morristown, TN with new c/r N814CK.
Operated by Connie Kalitta Services.

18 August 1993

Destroyed in a crash.
Flight 808 took off from Norfolk at 14:13 for a cargo flight to Guantanamo Bay. The flight and arrival into the Guantanamo terminal area was uneventful. At 16:34, while the flight was descending from FL320, radio contact was established with the Guantanamo radar controller. The radar controller instructed flight 808 to maintain VFR 12 miles off the Cuban coast and report at East Point. The runway in use was runway 10. The flight crew then requested a runway 28 approach, but changed this back to a runway 10 approach a couple of minutes later.Clearance was given at 16:46 with wind reported at 200deg./7 knots. The runway 10 threshold was located 0,75 mile East of Cuban airspace, designated by a strobe light, mounted on a Marine Corps guard tower, located at the corner of the Cuban border and the shoreline. On the day of the accident, the strobe light was not operational (both controller and flight crew were not aware of this). The aircraft was approached from the south and was making a right turn for runway 10 with an increasing angle of bank in order to align with the runway. At 200-300 feet agl the wings started to rock towards wings level and the nose pitched up. The right wing appeared to stall, the aircraft rolled to 90deg. angle of bank and the nose pitched down. The aircraft then struck level terrain 1400 feet west of the approach end of the runway and 200 feet north of the extended centreline.

27 September 1993

Civil registration, N814CK, cancelled.