Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 10 MAR 1983 |
| Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Operator: | Bakhtar Afghan Airlines |
| Registration: | YA-GAZ |
| C/n / msn: | 395 |
| First flight: | 1974 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 17 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 19 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Shashgow Ghazni (Afghanistan) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Uruzgan Airport (URZ/OARG), Afghanistan |
| Kabul Airport (KBL/OAKB), Afghanistan |
While enroute to Kabul, the weather deteriorated. The pilot chose to climb to FL185 and continue VFR. The aircraft crashed in an area of showers and thunderstorms.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Continued VFR flight in poor weather and a physical impairment (lack of oxygen when flying at high altitude).
Sources:
» The Age - Mar 15, 1983
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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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