FedEx Express Flight 80 was a scheduled cargo flight from
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in the
People's Republic of China, to
Narita International Airport in
Narita,
Chiba Prefecture (near
Tokyo),
Japan. On March 23, 2009, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N526FE) operating the flight crashed at 6:48 am
JST (21:48
UTC, March 22), while attempting a landing on Runway 34L in gusty wind conditions. The aircraft became destabilized at
flare and touchdown resulting in an
unrecovered "bounced" landing]with structural failure of the landing gear and
airframe, and came to rest off the runway, inverted, and burning fiercely. The captain and first officer, the jet's only occupants, were both killed.