Date: | Sunday 5 September 1999 |
Time: | 10:30 |
Type: | British Aerospace BAe-748-501 Srs. 2B |
Owner/operator: | Necon Air |
Registration: | 9N-AEG |
MSN: | 1806 |
Year of manufacture: | 1988 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 535-2 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | ca 15 km W of Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM) -
Nepal
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Pokhara Airport (PKR/VNPK) |
Destination airport: | Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM/VNKT) |
Narrative:Flight 128 departed Pokhara at 10:00 for a 35-minute domestic flight to Kathmandu. At 15 km west of Kathmandu, while approaching Tribhuvan Airport runway 02, the aircraft collided with a communication tower of Nepal Telecommunication Corporation and crashed in a wooded area.
Sources:
Josep Forrol
Nepal News
Tommy Maurer
World Airline Accident Summary- Airclaims
Location
Images:
photo (c) Nepalnews.com; Ramkot; 05 September 1999
photo (c) Nepalnews.com; Ramkot; 05 September 1999
photo (c) Nepalnews.com; Ramkot; 05 September 1999
photo (c) Nepalnews.com; Ramkot; 05 September 1999
photo (c) Marcel de Jong
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