US Bangla Airlines Flight 211
| US Bangla Airlines Flight 211 | |
|---|---|
 The 2014 De Havilland DHC-8 crashed at Dhaka Airport |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Wil be inspected |
| place |
Kathmandu Airport Nepal 27 ° 41 ′ 33 " N , 85 ° 21 ′ 32" E |
| date | March 12, 2018 |
| Fatalities | 52 |
| Survivors | 19th |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | De Havilland DHC-8-400 |
| operator |
 US Bangla Airlines
|
| Mark | S2-AGU |
| Departure airport |
Dhaka Airport , Bangladesh
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| Destination airport |
Kathmandu Airport , Nepal
|
| Passengers | 67 |
| crew | 4th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
US-Bangla Airlines flight 211 ( flight number : BS211 ) is carried out several times a week flight of Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla Airlines of Dhaka to Kathmandu . On March 12, 2018 at around 2:20 p.m. local time, a De Havilland DHC-8-400 slid over the runway after landing or missed it and went up in flames. There were 67 passengers and 4 crew members on board the machine.
plane
The crashed aircraft, a DHC-8-400 ( registration number : S2-AGU, c / n : 4041), had its maiden flight in 2001. Since then it has been used by eight different airlines, including the German Augsburg Airways from 2008 to 2013. From 2013 it was in operation by US Bangla Airlines. So far there have not been any major claims. On September 4, 2015, the plane was involved in a minor incident when it came off the runway at Saidpur Airport in adverse weather conditions. No people were harmed.
Course of events
The flight left Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 12:52 p.m. local time (06:52 a.m. UTC) with 67 passengers and four crew members on board, a total of 71 people, to fly to Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu . Take-off and flight went without incident.
The control tower initially cleared runway 02 for the landing , but the cockpit crew requested a landing on runway 20 - although this is the same runway, but landing from the opposite direction. The control tower then cleared the landing accordingly. When the tower asked whether the crew wanted to use runway 20 for landing, the cockpit crew replied: “I would like to land on 02”. ("I would like to land on 02.")
Local media reported that the flight missed the threshold of runway 02 and touched down before the crash. Eyewitnesses said the aircraft was moving at an angle to the runway. It came off the side of the runway and slid through the airport fence and then crashed onto a soccer field. It then went up in flames as the fuel tanks were damaged and broke into several pieces.
40 people were found dead at the scene of the accident, nine more were pronounced dead in the hospital on the same day. Two other inmates died the day after the accident and another two weeks later. A total of 52 of the 71 people on board died as a result of the accident.
See also
Web links
- Route and data of flight BS211 on Flightradar24 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Accident: US-Bangla DH8D at Kathmandu on Mar 12th 2018, runway excursion on landing. In: The Aviation Herald . March 12, 2018, accessed March 12, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Accident report DHC-8-400 S2-AGU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 12, 2018.
- ↑ Update: 49 killed in US Bangla BS-211 crash. In: The Himalayan Times . March 12, 2018, accessed March 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Dozens of dead in a plane crash in Kathmandu. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, March 12, 2018, accessed March 12, 2018 .
- ^ Accident report DHC-8-400 S2-AGU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 13, 2018.
- ↑ Kathmandu plane crash updates: KP Sharma Oli assures immediate probe, reaches airport to take stock ( English ) First Post . Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d Nepal plane crash highlights: Bangladesh aircraft catches fire at Kathmandu airport, over 50 feared dead ( English ) Indian Express . Retrieved March 13, 2018.
- ↑ liveatc.net ( English ) Retrieved on March 12, 2018. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lucky to be alive: Nepal plane crash survivor (English) , The Hindu . Retrieved March 13, 2018.
- ↑ US-Bangla plane crashes at TIA (English) . In: Nepali Times , March 12, 2018. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
