Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746
| Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 | |
|---|---|
 An identically constructed Fokker F-28 from Piedmont Airlines |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Stall after engine failure |
| place | Krakas Mountains, near Natanz , Iran
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| date | October 12, 1994 |
| Fatalities | 66 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Fokker F-28-1000
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| operator |
Iran Aseman Airlines
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| Mark |
EP-PAV
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| Departure airport |
Isfahan Airport , Iran
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| Destination airport |
Tehran Mehrabad Airport , Iran
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| Passengers | 59 |
| crew | 7th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On October 12, 1994, a Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship crashed on the Iran Aseman Airlines flight 746 (flight number IATA : EP746 , ICAO : IRC746 ) in the Krakas Mountains near Natanz in Iran . All 66 people on board were killed in the accident.
plane
The machine was a Fokker F28 Fellowship in 1000 with the serial number 11070 , which had completed its first flight on June 22, 1973 before 10 July 1973 to the Turkish Airlines was delivered, where they the air vehicle registration TC-JAS and the Christian name Samsun received . In September 1987 the machine was sold to TAT European Airlines , where it received the new aircraft registration F-GEXU . From December 4, 1988, the machine was leased to Air Ontario and was operated by them with the aircraft registration number C-FONG . After another machine of this type had an accident on Air Ontario flight 1363 due to icing , to which this type of aircraft is very prone, the machine was again sold to the lessor TAT on July 4, 1989 with the aircraft registration F-GEXU However, the machine was leased to Air Niugini on July 11, 1989 , where the Fokker with the new registration number P2-ANY was in operation. On October 31, 1989, the machine returned to the TAT European Airlines fleet as a lease return, this time with the aircraft registration F-GIAJ . The last lessee Iran Aseman Airlines had been operating the machine since January 1992 with the aircraft registration EP-PAV . The twin- engine, short - haul aircraft was equipped with two Rolls-Royce Spey 555-15 engines.
Passengers, crew and flight plan
The domestic scheduled flight EP746 from Isfahan to Tehran was operated with the machine . For this purpose the machine was refueled in Isfahan. 59 passengers had started the flight and there was a crew of seven on board.
Accident report
The start in Isfahan went according to plan. After a flight time of 35 minutes, both engines suddenly failed. This resulted in a stall ; the machine fell uncontrollably to the ground before it smashed and exploded 47 seconds later on a mountainside in the Krakas Mountains near Natanz . All 66 occupants were killed in the accident.
root cause
It turned out that the engines had failed because the machine in Isfahan had been refueled with contaminated fuel.
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- Accident report F28-1000 EP-PAV , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 4, 2020.
- Accident report on planecrashinfo.com
- Accident report on airdisaster.com
- Operational history of the machine on planelogger.com
Coordinates: 33 ° 30 ′ 48 ″ N , 51 ° 54 ′ 59 ″ E