Lufthansa Cargo flight 8533
| Lufthansa Cargo flight 8533 | |
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.jpg) The affected machine VT-LCI |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Controlled flight into terrain |
| place | Champadevi Mountains, 11 km southwest of Kathmandu Airport , Nepal
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| date | July 7, 1999 |
| Fatalities | 5 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Boeing 727-243F
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| operator |
 Hinduja Cargo Services for Lufthansa Cargo
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| Mark |
VT-LCI
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| Departure airport |
Kathmandu Airport , Nepal
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| Destination airport |
Delhi Airport , India
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| crew | 5 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The Lufthansa Cargo Flight 8533 was a cargo flight that by the Indian Hinduja Cargo Services for Lufthansa Cargo should be carried out on 7 July 1999th The flight was supposed to be from Kathmandu to Delhi with a Boeing 727-243F , but a few minutes after take-off from Kathmandu airport the machine was flown into a mountain flank, with all five crew members dying.
machine
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 727-243F, which was 17 years and 11 months old at the time of the accident. The machine was the work of Boeing on the Boeing Field in the state of Washington assembled and completed on August 3, 1981 its first flight before re on 3 September 1981 to the Alitalia was delivered, in which they, the air vehicle registration I-DIRS received. The aircraft had the factory number 22168, it was the 1770. Boeing 727 from ongoing production. From May 4, 1985, the machine belonged to PeoplExpress , where it was given the new registration number N586PE . After the PeoplExpress was absorbed by Continental Airlines , the machine belonged to the fleet of this airline from February 1, 1987, which it registered in August 1990 with the new registration number N14416 . Hinduja Cargo Services acquired the machine in January 1997 and converted it into a cargo aircraft before it was re -approved as VT-LCI . The three - engine narrow -body aircraft was equipped with three Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 engines. By the time of the accident, the machine had completed a total of 43,000 operating hours, which accounted for 25,000 take-offs and landings.
Inmates and cargo
There was a crew of five on board the machine. The Boeing had loaded 21 tons of cargo, most of which were wool carpets.
Weather
At the time of the accident, it was drizzling at the airport with temperatures of 22 ° C.
the accident
The machine took off from runway 20 of Kathmandu Airport for its flight to Delhi. During the initial climb, the aircraft passed the 4-DME marker before making a flat right turn. Shortly afterwards, a warning from the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) sounded . The stick shaker activated 11 seconds after the first GPWS warning when the speed dropped below 171 knots.
Five minutes after take-off, the machine was flown into the Champedevi range of hills around 15 kilometers south of the take-off airport and completely destroyed. After taking off, the machine climbed insufficiently in a curve that was executed too flat and collided with the terrain at an altitude of 7,550 feet. All five crew members were killed.
root cause
The main causes were non-compliance with the prescribed departure procedure, inadequate briefing by the captain, inadequate coordination within the cockpit crew and the far too slow reaction to the repeated warnings from the ground proximity warning system.
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- Accident report B-727-243F, VT-LCI in the Aviation Safety Network
- Machine operational history , jetphotos.com