Eastern Air Lines Flight 980, Plane crash site in Bolivia
Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was a scheduled international flight from Paraguay to the United States that crashed in Bolivia.
On January 1, 1985, Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 tragically struck Mount Illimani at an altitude of over 19,000 feet.
The disaster of Flight 980 remains etched in aviation history as one of the highest-altitude commercial plane crashes to date.
The wreckage of the plane on Mount Illimani is extremely difficult to reach due to harsh weather conditions and treacherous terrain.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 held the black box data recorders that were among the longest unrecovered after a crash, found only after 32 years.
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