Accident
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Statuts: | Préliminaire |
| Date: | 08 JUN 2009 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Antonov 32 |
| Compagnie: | Indian Air Force - IAF |
| Immatriculation: | registration unknown |
| Numéro de série: | |
| Année de Fabrication: | |
| Moteurs: | 2 Ivchenko AI-20 |
| Equipage: | victimes: 7 / à bord: 7 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 6 / à bord: 6 |
| Total: | victimes: 13 / à bord: 13 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Disparu |
| Lieu de l'accident: | Rinchi village in West Siang district (Inde)
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| Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
| Nature: | Militaire |
| Aéroport de départ: | Machuka Advanced Landing Ground, Inde |
| Mohanbari Air Base (MOH/VEMN), Inde |
An Indian Air Force An-32 transport plane crashed in a mountainous area near Rinchi village in the West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh. All seven IAF crew members and six Army personnel were killed.
The aircraft took off from the Machuka Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) in West Siang district at 14:00 after dropping Army supplies. The airplane was en route to Mohanbari when it went missing. The wreckage was found two days later.
Sources:
» IAF plane with 14 people goes missing, fears to have crashed (Hindustan Times, 8-6-2009)
» IAF aircraft wreckage, bodies recovered (The Hindu, 11-6-2009)
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Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.
