Korean Air Flight 916 hail strike
Boeing 747 · Collision with hail from a storm after takeoff
From Milan Linate Airport to Gimpo International Airport
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Boeing 747
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- HL7479
- Operator
- Korean Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Milan Linate AirportTo Gimpo International Airport
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Korean Air Flight 916 hail strike was an incident on 14 September 1994 in which the Boeing 747-4B5 airliner of Korean Air Flight 916, which had taken off from Milan Linate Airport in Italy and was scheduled to arrive at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul after stopping over at Zurich Airport in Switzerland, was struck by hail after takeoff while passing over the island of Elba in Tuscany, Italy; fortunately, there were no casualties at all among the 303 people on board, and the crew were all unharmed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “대한항공 916편 우박 충돌 사고” (revision 40687349, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Korean Wikipedia article: 대한항공 916편 우박 충돌 사고
- Article
- 대한항공 916편 우박 충돌 사고
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 40687349 · 2025-10-03 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q110114734
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ko Wikipedia article "대한항공 916편 우박 충돌 사고" (page 2871677, revision 40687349), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Korean Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.