Sita Air Flight 601

Sita Air Flight 601

9N-AHA at Lukla Airport in September 2011
Accident summary
Date 28 September 2012 (2012-09-28)
Summary Impacted ground, burst into flames following bird strike that caused structural damage on climb-out
Site Madhyapur, Bhaktapur District, Nepal
27°40′50″N 85°21′22″E / 27.68056°N 85.35611°E / 27.68056; 85.35611Coordinates: 27°40′50″N 85°21′22″E / 27.68056°N 85.35611°E / 27.68056; 85.35611
Passengers 16
Crew 3
Fatalities 19
Survivors 0
Aircraft type Dornier Do 228
Operator Sita Air
Registration 9N-AHA
Flight origin Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal
Destination Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Lukla, Solukhumbu District, Nepal

Sita Air Flight 601 was a Nepalese domestic flight, due to be operated with a Dornier 228, that crashed on 28 September 2012, three minutes after it departed Tribhuvan International Airport, killing all 19 people on board.

Accident

The aircraft involved in the accident was a Dornier 228-202, registration 9N-AHA, serial number 8123; it was due to operate a domestic scheduled Kathmandu-Lukla flight.[1] Shortly after departing Tribhuvan International Airport, the pilot reported technical issues with the aircraft, and requested to fly it back to the airport.[2] A suspected bird strike occurred,[3][4] as the aircraft may have hit a vulture.[5] Three minutes after take-off, on the way back to the airport, the aircraft crashed on the banks of the Manohara river and caught fire.[2] All 19 people on board perished in the accident.[5] It was the second deadly accident to occur in Nepal in 2012,[6] and the last of at least ten fatal crashes since 2002.[7]

Casualties

All on board died in the crash.[8][9] The nationality of the victims were as follows.[10][11][12]

Nationality Fatalities Total
Passengers Crew
   Nepal 4 3 7
 China 5 0 5
 United Kingdom 7 0 7
Total 16 3 19

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Accident description for 9N-AHA at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 28 December 2012.
  2. 1 2 Toh, Mavis (28 September 2012). "Sita Air Do-228-200 crash kills 19 in Nepal". Flightglobal. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Alleyne, Richard (1 October 2012). "Nepal plane crash pilot had safety concerns". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  4. ↑ Buncombe, Andrew; Taylor, Jerome (28 September 2012). "City lawyer among seven Britons killed in Nepal plane crash". The Independent. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  5. 1 2 Moores, Victoria (28 September 2012). "19 killed in Sita Air Dornier 228 crash". Air Transport World. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  6. ↑ Learmount, David (28 September 2012). "The dangers of flying in Nepal". Flightglobal. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  7. ↑ Kaminski-Morrow, David (5 October 2012). "Nepalese carriers face blacklist scrutiny after latest crash". Flightglobal. Archived from the original on 28 December 2012.
  8. ↑ Samiksha, Koirala (29 September 2012). "All 19 on board die in Sita Air crash". República. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  9. ↑ Shengnan, Zhao; Yunbi, Zhang (29 September 2012). "19 killed as plane crashes in Nepal". China Daily. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  10. ↑ Shrestha, Manesh (28 December 2012). "19 dead in crash of plane carrying tourists to Everest staging post". CNN. Archived from the original on 28 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  11. ↑ Sharma, Gopal (28 September 2012). "British, Chinese among 19 dead in Nepal plane crash". Kathmandu: Reuters. Archived from the original on 28 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  12. ↑ "Nepal plane crash: Seven Britons among 19 dead". BBC News. 28 September 2012. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.

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