Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 06 AUG 1970 |
| Time: | 02:17 |
| Type: | Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 |
| Operator: | Pakistan International Airlines - PIA |
| Registration: | AP-ALM |
| C/n / msn: | 10163 |
| First flight: | 1960 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 19000 |
| Cycles: | 26000 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 26 / Occupants: 26 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 30 / Occupants: 30 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 20 km (12.5 mls) SE of Rawalpindi (Pakistan)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Rawalpindi (RWP), Pakistan |
| Lahore Airport (LHE/OPLA), Pakistan |
At 02:14 the F-27 took off from Rawalpindi for a 44-minute flight to Lahore. About three minutes later the aircraft crashed into the ground, left wing low at high speed.
Weather was bad at the time of the accident: thunderstorms in heavy rainfall and gusty winds.
Sources:
» Willem Wendt
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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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