Date:	Tuesday 13 July 1971
Time:	10:38
Type:	Fokker F-27 Friendship 100
Owner/operator:	Indian Airlines
Registration:	VT-DOL
MSN:	10219
Year of manufacture:	1963
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 33
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, repaired
Category:	Accident
Location:	Gauhati-Borjhar Airport (GAU) -   India
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	Gauhati-Borjhar Airport (GAU/VEGT)

Narrative:
While landing at Guwahati, the crew did not carry out the final landing checks, resulting in a late selection of the undercarriage. At that moment the tail skid contact the runway and the aircraft landed on the fuselage.

Civil aircraft accidents 1971 / Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, CAD, ASD

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


15 October 1964	VT-DOL	Indian Airlines	0	Madras Airport (MAA)		sub
16 July 1977	VT-DOL	Indian Airlines	0	Jammu-Satwari Airport (IXJ)		sub
Runway mishap

photo (c) Frank Ellemers Collection; Calcutta-Dum Dum Airport (CCU/VECC)

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