Korean Air Flight 801  Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801) was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air. The flight crashed on August 6, 1997, on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, in the United States territory of Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people aboard. The aircraft crashed on Nimitz Hill in Asan, Guam while on approach to the airport. The National Transportation Safety Board cites poor communication between the flight crew as probable cause for the crash, along with the captain’s poor decision making on the non-precision approach. Flight 801 was normally flown by an Airbus A300; since Korean Air had scheduled the August 5–6 flight to transport Chamorro athletes to the South Pacific Mini Games in American Samoa, the airline designated HL7468, a 12-year-old Boeing 747-300 delivered to Korean Air on December 12, 1984, to fly the route that night. The flight was under the command of 42-year-old Captain Park Yong-chul (Korean: 박용철, Hanja: 朴鏞喆, RR: "Bak Yong-cheol". M-R: "Pak Yongch'ŏl") The captain had close to 9,000 hours of flight time (with 3,192 of them on the Boeing 747) and had recently received a Flight Safety Award for negotiating a 747 engine failure at low altitude. Park had originally been scheduled to fly to Dubai, United Arab Emirates; since he did not have enough rest for the Dubai trip, he was reassigned to Flight 801. The first officer was 40-year-old Song Kyung-ho (Korean: 송경호, Hanja: 宋慶昊, RR: "Song Gyeong-ho", M-R: "Song Kyŏngho"), who had more than 4,000 hours' flying experience (with 1,560 hours on the Boeing 747), and the flight engineer was 57-year-old Nam Suk-hoon (Korean: 남석훈, Hanja: 南錫薰, RR: "Nam Seok-hun", M-R: "Nam Sŏkhun"), a veteran pilot with more than 13,000 flight hours, including 1,573 hours on the Boeing 747.