Olympic Aviation Flight 545

Olympic Aviation Flight 545
	SX-BGE, the aircraft involved in the accident
Accident
Date	3 August 1989
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain
Site	Mount Kerkis, Samos, Greece
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Shorts 330-200
Aircraft name	Isle of Milos
Operator	Olympic Aviation
Registration	SX-BGE
Flight origin	Thessaloniki Airport
Destination	Samos Airport
Occupants	34
Passengers	31
Crew	3
Fatalities	34
Survivors	0

On 3 August 1989, Olympic Aviation Flight 545, operated by a Shorts 330-200, crashed into a cloud-shrouded Mount Kerkis on Samos due to the pilots using visual flight rules in instrument meteorological conditions. All on board perished.^[1]^[2] This accident is the worst involving a Shorts 330.^[3]

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in Greece
1960s-1970s	El Al Flight 253 attack (December 1968) Olympic Airways Flight 954 (December 1969) Olympic Airways Flight 255 hijacking (July 1970) Lufthansa Flight 303 (December 1973) Olympic Airways Flight 830 (November 1976) Olympic Airways Flight 411 (August 1978) Swissair Flight 316 (October 1979)
1980s-1990s	Trans World Airlines Flight 847 (June 1985) TWA Flight 840 bombing (April 1986) Olympic Aviation Flight 545 (August 1989) Aerosvit Flight 241 (December 1997)
Since 2000	Malév Flight 262 (July 2000) Helios Airways Flight 522 (August 2005) Turkish Airlines Flight 1476 (October 2006) Meridian Flight 3032 (July 2022)
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