Date:	Sunday 25 January 1970
Time:	19:13
Type:	Fokker F-27 Friendship 200
Owner/operator:	Royal Nepal Airlines
Registration:	9N-AAR
MSN:	10290
Year of manufacture:	1965
Total airframe hrs:	7891 hours
Cycles:	4581 flights
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 23
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	3 km E of Delhi-Palam Airport (DEL) -   India
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM/VNKT)
Destination airport:	Delhi-Palam Airport (DEL/VIDP)

Narrative:
While on final approach to Delhi, the aircraft was caught in severe thunderstorms with turbulence and down draughts. The pilot couldn't control the aircraft, and the F-27 crashed short of runway 28.

Civil aircraft accidents 1970 / Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, CAD, ASD
Willem Wendt

photo (c) Fokker, via Frank Ellemers; Kathmandu-Gaucher Airport (KTM/VNKT); 30 January 1966

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