Advance Airlines Flight DR4210 was a scheduled passenger flight which crashed at Sydney Airport on 21 February 1980 , killing all 13 people on board the Advance Airlines Beech Beechcraft King Air 200 . After taking off on runway 25 for a scheduled flight the aircraft 's left ( port ) engine failed and the pilot requested an emergency landing on runway 34 . The plane crashed into the sea wall while attempting the emergency landing . The accident caused the greatest number of fatalities in a civil aircraft crash in Australia since MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 , a Vickers Viscount that crashed near Port Hedland in Western Australia on 31 December 1968 killing all 26 on board
MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750
MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750
Advance Airlines Flight 4210