Korean Air Flight 581 loading accident
McDonnell Douglas MD-11 · Mistake by ground staff during cargo loading/unloading
From Gimpo International Airport, Seoul to Sydney Kingsford Smith 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
- 10
- 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
McDonnell Douglas MD-11
- Aircraft type
- McDonnell Douglas MD-11
- 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
- HL7372
- Operator
- Korean Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Gimpo International Airport, SeoulTo Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport
Approximate · Estimated position: Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The Korean Air Flight 581 loading accident was an incident on 9 January 2002 in which a mistake was made in the cargo unloading process of the Korean Air Flight 851 freighter at Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport. There were no casualties.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “대한항공 581편 적재 사고” (revision 41976474, 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 581편 적재 사고
- Article
- 대한항공 581편 적재 사고
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 41976474 · 2026-06-22 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q110114733
- 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 581편 적재 사고" (page 2879886, revision 41976474), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- 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.