Date:	Saturday 24 July 1976
Time:	18:52
Type:	Fokker F-27 Friendship 100
Owner/operator:	Indian Airlines
Registration:	VT-DMD
MSN:	10174
Year of manufacture:	1961
Total airframe hrs:	32677 hours
Cycles:	27978 flights
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 23
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Bhubaneswar Airport (BBI) -   India
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	Bhubaneswar Airport (BBI/VEBS)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The F-27 landed heavily, bounced and ballooned, rolled steeply to the right and stalled in a nose-down attitude. The nosegear tire burst when the aircraft hit the runway. The aircraft swung and came to rest with the no. 2 engine and right wingtip sheared off.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Improper recovery from a bounced landing."

Willem Wendt
Civil aircraft accidents 1976 / Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, CAD, ASD

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