Aviation Disasters in Nepal
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Aviation Disasters in Nepal
- Airlines: Royal Nepal Airlines
- Flight:
- Aircraft Type: Twin Otter 300 (Canadian built)
- Date: June 1991
- Local Time (approximately): 13:00 hrs
- Site: Lukla
- Passengers: 14
- Crew: 3
- Injuries: 0
- Fatalities: 17 (all)
- Survivors: 0
- Departed: Kathmandu
- Aircraft Attitude: Approach (Lukla Airport in poor weather)
- Airlines: Thai Airlines
- Flight: Flight 311
- Aircraft Type: Airbus A310-304
- Date: July 31 1992
- Local Time (approximately): 13:00 hrs
- Site: Langtang National Park, Nepal
- Passengers: 99
- Crew: 14
- Injuries: 0
- Fatalities: 113 (all)
- Survivors: 0
- Departed: Don Mueang at 10:30 AM local time
- Aircraft Attitude: Approach (Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport)
- Airlines: Pakistan International Airlines
- Flight: PIA Flight 268
- Aircraft Type: Airbus A300B4-203
- Date: September 28th 1992
- Local Time (approximately): 13:00 hrs
- Site:
- Passengers: 155
- Crew: 12
- Injuries: 0
- Fatalities: 167 (all)
- Survivors:0 (none)
- Departed: Karachi at 11:13 AM
- Aircraft Attitude: Approach (Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport)
- Airlines: Shangrila Air
- Flight:
- Aircraft Type: Twin Otter (Canadian-built)
- Date: August 22th 2002
- Local Time (approximately):
- Site: 3 miles southeast of Pokhara (village of Dopahar)
- Passengers: 15
- Crew: 3
- Injuries: 0
- Fatalities: 18 (all) (Passengers included 13 Germans, 1 Briton and 1 U.S. citizen)
- Survivors:0 (None)
- Departed: Jomsom
- Aircraft Attitude: Approach (Pokhara Airport)
- Airlines:
- Flight:
- Aircraft Type: Helicopter Mi-17 (Russian made)
- Date: September 23th 2006
- Local Time (approximately):
- Site: Taplajung
- Passengers: 28
- Crew:
- Injuries: 0
- Fatalities: 30 (all) (Passengers included 24 WWF Conservationists)
- Survivors:0 (None)
- Departed: Local airport
- Aircraft Attitude: Approach (Taplajung Airport)
- Airlines: Yeti Airlines
- Flight:
- Aircraft Type:
- Date: October 8th 2008
- Local Time (approximately):
- Site: Lukla
- Passengers: 16
- Crew: 3
- Injuries: 1
- Fatalities: 18 (all) (Passengers included 12 Germans and 2 Australians)
- Survivors:1 (Pilot)
- Departed: Kathmandu
- Aircraft Attitude: Approach (Lukla Airport)
- Lukla's runway is just 20m wide and is set on a slope, with a steep 700m drop at one end.
- Airlines: Manang Air
- Flight:
- Aircraft Type: Helicopter Mi-17 (Russian made)
- Date: November 15th 2009
- Local Time (approximately): 11:30 AM
- Site: Rodikot, Humla district in mid-western Nepal
- Passengers: 6
- Crew:
- Injuries: 5
- Fatalities: 1 (Passenger Sergei Kovyazo a Russian engineer)
- Survivors:5
- Departed: Local airport
- Aircraft Attitude: Landing (remote mountain village)
While attempting to land at the helipad while transporting grain and food items from Surkhet to a remote mountain village, the helicopter’s rear rotors hit the mountainside and the pilot lost control of the aircraft.
