Date: | Thursday 10 March 1983 |
Time: | |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
Owner/operator: | Bakhtar Afghan Airlines |
Registration: | YA-GAZ |
MSN: | 395 |
Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 19 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Shashgow Ghazni -
Afghanistan
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Uruzgan Airport (URZ/OARG) |
Destination airport: | Kabul Airport (KBL/OAKB) |
Narrative:While enroute to Kabul, the weather deteriorated. The pilot chose to climb to FL185 and continue VFR. The aircraft crashed in an area of showers and thunderstorms.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Continued VFR flight in poor weather and a physical impairment (lack of oxygen when flying at high altitude).
Sources:
The Age - Mar 15, 1983
Statistics
- 22nd worst accident in 1983
- 18th worst accident of this aircraft type
- 3rd worst accident of this aircraft type at the time
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