page_title: Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 901
section_title: Aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 901 / Aircraft
caption_attribution_description: English: Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 LN-RKB at Faro Airport
context_page_description: Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 901, also known as SAS Flight 901, was a scheduled international flight operated by the Scandinavian Airlines System, that overran the runway at its destination at John F. Kennedy International Airport on February 28, 1984. The flight, operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, originated at Stockholm Arlanda Airport, Sweden, before a stopover at an airport in Oslo, Norway. All 177 passengers and crew members on board survived, although 12 were injured. The cause was a runway overshoot due to the crew's failure to monitor their airspeed and overreliance on the aircraft's autothrottle.
context_section_description: Flight 901 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, registered as LN-RKB, named the Haakon Viking, and first flown in testing in 1975. Its McDonnell Douglas construction number was 46871/219. The aircraft was equipped with three General Electric CF6-50C engines. It entered into commercial flight service with Scandinavian Airlines in January 1976.
caption: LN-RKB in a previous livery, 1983
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