ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 331048
| Date: | Thursday 6 August 1970 |
| Time: | 02:17 |
| Type: |  Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 |
| Owner/operator: | Pakistan International Airlines - PIA |
| Registration: | AP-ALM |
| MSN: | 10163 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1960 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 19000 hours |
| Cycles: | 26000 flights |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 30 / Occupants: 30 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 20 km SE of Rawalpindi -
 Pakistan
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Rawalpindi (RWP) |
| Lahore Airport (LHE/OPLA) |
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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