Lionair Flight 602
| Lionair Flight 602 | |
|---|---|
 An identical machine from Gomelavia |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Kill with MANPADS |
| place | off the coast of Iranaitivu , Sri Lanka
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| date | September 29, 1998 |
| Fatalities | 55 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Antonov An-24RW
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| operator |
 Gomelavia for Lionair
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| Mark |
EW-46465
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| Departure airport |
Jaffna Airport , Sri Lanka
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| Destination airport |
Ratmalana Airport , Colombo , Sri Lanka
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| Passengers | 48 |
| crew | 7th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The LionAir Flight 602 (Flight number: LN602 ) was a line domestic flight of the airline LionAir from Sri Lanka , who from Jaffna airport to airport Ratmalana led. On this flight on September 29, 1998, an Antonov An-24RW , which was operated by the Belarusian Gomelavia for Lionair, was shot down ten minutes after take-off using a MANPAD , killing all 55 people on board. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam confessed to the attack on the passenger plane .
plane
The aircraft was a 26-year-old Antonov An-24RW with factory number 27307901 and model serial number 085-02 , which made its maiden flight on March 28, 1973 and was delivered to Aeroflot on April 2 of the same year . The twin-engine, short-haul passenger aircraft was equipped with two Ivchenko AI-24WT turboprop engines. At the time of the accident, the machine had a cumulative total operating performance of 42,442 operating hours.
Crew and passengers
48 passengers had taken the flight. There was a crew of seven on board. The captain of the machine was Anatoly Matotschko. One stewardess was Sinhalese . The 48 passengers, including 23 men, 17 women and eight children, were all Tamils .
the accident
The machine took off at 1:30 p.m. and began its climb at flight level FL140. Radio contact with the machine was lost at 1:40 p.m. local time, just ten minutes after take-off from Jaffna Airport. Shortly before the radio contact was broken off, the master reported that he was now relieving the pressure in the pressurized cabin .
consequences
After the crash of Flight LN 602, all civil aviation operations between Colombo and Jaffna were suspended for many months by the Sri Lankan Civil Aviation Authority.
In March 2013, around 30 percent of the wreckage was recovered. The flight recorders were never found.
swell
- Accident report An-24RW, EW46465 in the Aviation Safety Network
- Easvaram Rutnam: Lionair Flight 602 salvaged , Colombo Gazette , May 5, 2013.
Coordinates: 8 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ N , 79 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E