Dates

Event

1965

Constructed as a DC-8F-55.

13 November 1965

To Flying Tigers with new c/r N802SW.

13 November 1965

Leased to Seaboard World Airlines Inc, Jamaica, NY.

From October 1969 to May 1970

Leased to International Air Bahama.

From May 1970 to May 1971

Leased to Trans Mediterranean Airlines.

From October 1971 to September 1973

To Loftleidir Icelandic with new c/r TF-LLK.

Circa 1972

Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
Notes: At London Heathrow

21 September 1973

To Martinair with new c/r PH-MBH.

By 1974

Leased to Garuda Indonesia.

4 December 1974

Destroyed in a crash.
Martinair Holland flight MP138, a Douglas DC-8-55, impacted a mountain near Maskeliya, Sri Lanka, killing all 191 occupants.The aircraft departed Surabaya at 12:03 UTC for a hadj flight to Jeddah with a planned intermediate stop at Colombo. Around 16:30 UTC Colombo Control cleared the flight down from FL350 to FL150. At 16:38, when the flight was 50 nm from Colombo the air traffic controller cleared the flight further down to 5000 feet and to report reaching 8000 feet. At 16:44 Colombo Approach Control then cleared the flight down to 2000 feet and told them to expect a runway 04 approach. The crew were then to report overhead the KAT NDB or when the airfield was in sight. The crew continued their descent until the airplane crashed into the Anjimalai Mountain at an altitude of 4355 feet, about 40 nm East of Colombo.