Date: | Thursday 19 March 1998 |
Time: | 13:00 |
Type: | Boeing 727-228 |
Owner/operator: | Ariana Afghan Airlines |
Registration: | YA-FAZ |
MSN: | 22288/1712 |
Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 45 / Occupants: 45 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 15 km S of Kabul Airport (KBL) -
Afghanistan
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Kandahar Airport (KDH/OAKN) |
Destination airport: | Kabul Airport (KBL/OAKB) |
Narrative:The Boeing 727 passenger jet operated on a flight from Sharjah, U.A.E. to Kabul, Afghanistan via Kandahar. The plane was descending for Kabul when it struck Shakh-e Barantay Mountain, 300 feet below the summit. The weather was poor with rain and snow.
Shakh-e Barantay is a 8,696 ft (2,651 m) high mountain peak. Kabul airfield elevation is about 5,877 ft (1,791 m).
Sources:
Flight International 13-19 January 1999
Tommy Maurer
Location
Images:
photo (c) Dirk Hammerschmidt, via Werner Fischdick; Düsseldorf Airport (DUS); February 1998
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