Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661 | |
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Accident summary | |
Accident type | Wil be inspected |
place | at Havelian near Abbottabad , Pakistan |
date | December 7, 2016 |
Fatalities | 47 |
Survivors | 0 |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | ATR 42-500 |
operator | Pakistan International Airlines |
Mark | AP-BHO |
Departure airport | Chitral Airport , Pakistan |
Destination airport | Islamabad Airport , Pakistan |
Passengers | 42 |
crew | 5 |
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On December 7, 2016, an ATR 42-500 crashed on Pakistan International Airlines flight 661 , a scheduled flight operated by Pakistan International Airlines from Chitral to Islamabad . The aircraft disappeared from the radar at 16:42 local time (11:42 UTC ) after the crew declared an air emergency due to the failure of the left engine . It crashed about 50 kilometers north of the destination airport in the town of Havelian near Abbottabad and hit a wooded, inaccessible mountainside. There were 5 crew members and 42 passengers on board; there were no survivors.
Airplane and occupants
The ATR 42-500 with the serial number 663 completed its maiden flight on May 3, 2007 and was delivered to Pakistan International Airlines on May 16, 2007 . The aircraft had the aircraft registration AP-BHO. By the time the incident occurred, it had completed 18,740 flight hours.
The crew consisted of 5 people: the flight captain, first officer , trainee pilot and two flight attendants . There were 42 passengers on board, 31 of them male including two flight safety attendants , 9 female and 2 children. Among the passengers were the Pakistani singer and preacher Junaid Jamshed , his wife Nahya Junaid and the Deputy Commissioner of the Chitral District , Osama Ahmed Warraich.
nationality | Number of victims | total | |
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Passengers | crew | ||
Pakistan | 39 | 5 | 44 |
Austria | 2 | 0 | 2 |
People's Republic of China | 1 | 0 | 1 |
total | 42 | 5 | 47 |
Web links
- Aircraft accident data and report ATR 42 AP-BHO in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 27, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ PTI: This is what led to the crash of PK-661 flight - Khaleej Times. In: www.khaleejtimes.com. Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Passenger plane crashed in Pakistan. In: FAZ.net. Retrieved December 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Crash: PIA AT42 near Havelian on Dec 7th 2016, engine failure. In: Aviation Herald . December 7, 2016, accessed December 7, 2016 .
- ^ PIA plane crashes near Havelian, all 47 passengers dead. In: Geo.TV. December 7, 2016, accessed on December 7, 2016 (report (including video)).
- ↑ Flight International, December 7, 2016 (English), accessed December 12, 2016.
- ↑ Simon Hradecky: Crash: PIA AT42 near Abbottabad on Dec 7th 2016, engine problems. The Aviation Herald , December 7, 2016, accessed December 7, 2016 .
- ↑ ATR 42/72 - MSN 663 - AP-BHO. Airfleets, accessed December 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Aviation Safety Network, AP-BHO, December 7, 2016
- ↑ Passenger list of crashed PIA flight PK-661. In: Dawn. December 7, 2016, accessed December 7, 2016 .
- ^ Shock and horror
- ↑ Shock and horror as Junaid Jamshed dies in PIA's crashed flight to Islamabad. In: Dawn. December 7, 2016, accessed December 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Passenger list of crashed PIA flight PK-661. In: Dawn. December 7, 2016, accessed December 7, 2016 .
Coordinates: 34 ° 2 ' N , 73 ° 9' E