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Britannia Airways Flight 226A

1Fatalities
244Survivors
245On board

Accident details

What happened

A Boeing 757 veers off the runway at Girona, Catalonia Spain, while landing in a thunderstorm and comes to rest in a field, broken apart in two places; 43 on board are injured, two seriously, but a passenger initially diagnosed as "lightly injured" dies five days later of unnoticed internal injuries.

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