World Airways Flight 30

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World Airways Flight 30
	The wreckage of N113WA
Accident
Date	January 23, 1982
Summary	Runway overshoot, inadequate runway inspection by airport personnel
Site	Logan International Airport; Boston, Massachusetts, United States ; 42°21′03″N 70°59′23″W / 42.35083°N 70.98972°W
Aircraft
Aircraft type	McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF
Operator	World Airways
IATA flight No.	WO30
ICAO flight No.	WOA30
Call sign	WORLD 30 Heavy
Registration	N113WA
Flight origin	Oakland International Airport
Stopover	Newark Liberty International Airport
Destination	Logan International Airport
Occupants	212
Passengers	200
Crew	12
Fatalities	2 (presumed drowned)
Injuries	39
Survivors	210

World Airways Flight 30 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF airliner which suffered a fatal accident upon landing at Logan International Airport in Boston after departing Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey on January 23, 1982. Two of the passengers were never found, and are presumed to have drowned.

Accident

World Airways Flight 30 was a regularly scheduled flight from Oakland to Boston via Newark. The first leg of the flight was uneventful. Flight 30 departed Newark under the command of Captain Peter Langley (58), First Officer Donald Hertzfeld (38), and Flight Engineer William Rogers (56).^[1]

The DC-10 touched down 2,800 feet (850 m) beyond the displaced threshold.^[2] Under normal circumstances, such an incident would have been of minor importance and the plane would have had sufficient space to come to a full stop on the 10,000 feet (3,000 m) long runway. However, the runway was covered in ice, and the braking action was poor to nil (though reported to the pilots as "fair to poor").

When it became apparent that the aircraft was not going to be able to stop on the runway, and since there was insufficient space remaining on the runway to take off again ("touch and go"), the pilots steered the plane off the runway in order to avoid hitting approach lights beyond the runway. The plane then skidded across a field and a taxiway before coming to rest in the 30 °F (−1 °C) waters of Boston Harbor.^[1]

The part of the DC-10 that housed the aircraft cockpit and forward galley separated from the main body of the aircraft, submerging the first row of passenger seats. The three pilots, two flight attendants, and three passengers ended up in the water. 210 passengers and crew, among them documentarian and television show host Justine Shapiro, survived and at first it was thought all on board had survived.^[3] Three days later it was discovered that two passengers were missing -- father and son Walter Metcalf, aged 70, and Leo Metcalf, aged 40, who had changed their flight at the last minute and were not on the passenger list. They were two of the three people to fall out of the plane during the crash, and reportedly neither of the two could swim. Divers were sent into the water, but the search proved unsuccessful. A theory for why the bodies haven't been recovered is that ocean currents have pushed them far away from the airport. As of 2024, neither body has been recovered.

References

^ ^a ^b "World Airways, Inc., Flight 30H, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF, N113WA, Boston-Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, Massachusetts, Jan. 23, 1982 (Revised)" (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. July 10, 1985. NTSB/AAR-85/06. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 25, 2009 – via Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University.
^ "Accident Description: McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF N113WA". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. May 25, 2011. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
^ Shapiro, Justine (May 22, 2003). "'Globe Trekker': South Africa". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 24, 2021.

External links

Accident details at planecrashinfo.com

[ntsb-1] "World Airways, Inc., Flight 30H, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF, N113WA, Boston-Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, Massachusetts, Jan. 23, 1982 (Revised)" (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. July 10, 1985. NTSB/AAR-85/06. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 25, 2009 – via Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University.

[ASN-2] "Accident Description: McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF N113WA". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. May 25, 2011. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.

[3] Shapiro, Justine (May 22, 2003). "'Globe Trekker': South Africa". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 24, 2021.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 1980s
1980	Air Wisconsin Flight 965 (June 1980)
1981	Eastern Air Lines Flight 935 (September 1981)
1982	Air Florida Flight 90 (January 13 1982) Thunderbirds Indian Springs Diamond Crash (January 18 1982) World Airways Flight 30 (January 23 1982) Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458 (February 1982) Pan Am Flight 759 (July 9 1982) Twilight Zone accident (July 23 1982) Pan Am Flight 830 (August 1982)
1983	United Airlines Flight 2885 (January 1983) Eastern Air Lines Flight 855 (May 1983) Air Canada Flight 797 (June 2 1983) Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 (June 8 1983) Air Illinois Flight 710 (October 1983) Ozark Air Lines Flight 650 (December 20 1983) Anchorage runway collision (December 23 1983)
1984	Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 901 (February 1984) Vieques Air Link Flight 901A (August 2 1984)* San Luis Obispo mid-air collision (August 24 1984) Provincetown-Boston Airlines Flight 1039 (December 1984)
1985	Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 (January 1985) China Airlines Flight 006 (February 1985) Delta Air Lines Flight 191 (August 2 1985) Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 (August 25 1985) Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 (September 6 1985) Henson Airlines Flight 1517 (September 23 1985) Teterboro mid-air collision (November 1985) Death of Ricky Nelson (December 1985)
1986	Grand Canyon mid-air collision (June 1986) Aeroméxico Flight 498 (August 1986) Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident (November 1986)
1987	SkyWest Airlines Flight 1834 (January 1987) Northwest Airlink Flight 2268 (March 1987) American Eagle Flight 5452 (May 1987)* Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (August 1987) Indianapolis Ramada Inn A-7D Corsair II crash (October 1987) Continental Airlines Flight 1713 (November 1987) Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 (December 1987)
1988	Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 (January 1988) American Airlines Flight 132 (February 3 1988) AVAir Flight 3378 (February 19 1988) Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (April 1988) TACA Flight 110 (May 1988) Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 (August 1988)
1989	United Airlines Flight 811 (February 1989) Evergreen International Airlines Flight 17 (March 1989) United Airlines Flight 232 (July 1989) USAir Flight 5050 (September 1989) KLM Flight 867 (December 15 1989) United Express Flight 2415 (December 26 1989)
This list is incomplete. An asterisk (*) denotes an incident that took place in a U.S. territory.

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