Pamir Airways Flight 112

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Pamir Airways Flight 112
Antonov an-24.jpg

Accident summary
Accident type unknown
place 20 km north of Kabul , Afghanistan
date May 17, 2010
Fatalities 44
Survivors 0
Aircraft
Aircraft type Antonov An-24
operator Pamir Airways
Mark YA-PIS
Departure airport Kunduz airport
Destination airport Kabul airport
Passengers 38
crew 6th
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Pamir Airways flight 112 (according to other sources Pamir Airways flight 1102 ) was a scheduled flight from Kunduz to Kabul with an Antonov An-24 , which crashed on May 17, 2010 shortly after take-off.

plane

The aircraft was an Antonov An-24 with the serial number 27307903 and the aircraft registration YA-PIS. The aircraft was delivered in 1972 and taken over by Pamir Airways in February 2010.

the accident

The flight left Kunduz at 8:30 a.m. local time with 38 passengers and - according to contradicting information - five or six crew members on board and was no longer detected by the radar 10 minutes later. On May 21, search parties reached the wreck of the aircraft 20 kilometers north of Kabul at an altitude of 4,100 meters in the Shakar Darah Mountains. Body parts and the flight recorder were recovered.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Accident description . Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
  2. Official: Passenger plane crashes in Afghanistan
  3. Afghan passenger flight reported missing
  4. a b AFP : Afghan searchers find plane's black box ( English ) The Sydney Morning Herald . May 22, 2010. Retrieved May 26, 2010.

Coordinates: 35 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 68 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E