Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 01 JUL 1957 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47A-10-DK |
| Operator: | Pakistan International Airlines - PIA |
| Registration: | AP-AJS |
| C/n / msn: | 12501 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 20 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 24 / Occupants: 24 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | off Charlakhi Island (Bangladesh) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Chittagong-Patenga Airport (CGP/VGEG), Bangladesh |
| Dhaka Airport, Bangladesh |
The DC-3 crashed on tidal flats in the Bay of Bengal.
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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Douglas DC-3
- 1996th loss
- ca 13.000 built
- 59th worst accident (at the time)
- 118th worst accident (currently)
Bangladesh- worst accident (at the time)
- 3rd worst accident (currently)