Yeti Airlines Flight 103

Yeti Airlines Flight 103
Accident summary
Accident type	Controlled flight into terrain
place	Tenzing-Hillary Airport
date	October 8, 2008
Fatalities	18th
Survivors	1
Injured	1
Aircraft
Aircraft type	De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
operator	Yeti Airlines
Mark	9N-AFE
Departure airport	Tribhuvan International Airport
Destination airport	Tenzing-Hillary Airport
Passengers	16
crew	3
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Yeti Airlines flight 103 was carried out with a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter with the aircraft registration 9N-AFE. The plane crashed on October 8, 2008 on final approach to Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla in eastern Nepal . The flight took off from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu .

procedure

The airport is the main gateway to the Mount Everest region in Nepal and is known for its challenging location. Its runway is only 527 meters long and 20 meters wide and has a steep incline. Due to bad weather, the pilots had difficulty making out the runway. When the landing attempt was carried out, the aircraft flew too low and offset to the runway and crashed into the mountain flank immediately in front of the runway.

Passengers

Memorial plaque at the western exit of Lukla.

A total of 18 people died in the accident - 16 tourists and two Nepalese crew members - only one of the Nepalese pilots survived with serious injuries. Twelve of the passengers were German trekking tourists, two came from Nepal and two from Australia .

Web links

Only Footage of the Lukla (Nepal) Crash on YouTube , uploaded November 6, 2008, accessed December 20, 2014

Individual evidence

↑ Crash: Yeti Airlines DHC6 at Lukla, on October 8th, 2008, crashed on runway. The Aviation Herald , accessed February 28, 2011.
^ Accident report DHC-6 9N-AFE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 14, 2018.
↑ Martin Pelzl: Death of twelve Germans: The horror crash of Lukla. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . October 6, 2018, accessed June 12, 2019 .
^ Matt Johnston, David Hastie: Everest plane crash claims Australian couple. In: Herald Sun . October 9, 2008, archived from the original on December 11, 2008 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .

27.6853561 86.7247803Coordinates: 27 ° 41 ′ 7 ″ N , 86 ° 43 ′ 29 ″ E

[AvHerald-1] Crash: Yeti Airlines DHC6 at Lukla, on October 8th, 2008, crashed on runway. The Aviation Herald , accessed February 28, 2011.

[2] Accident report DHC-6 9N-AFE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 14, 2018.

[3] Martin Pelzl: Death of twelve Germans: The horror crash of Lukla. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . October 6, 2018, accessed June 12, 2019 .

[4] Matt Johnston, David Hastie: Everest plane crash claims Australian couple. In: Herald Sun . October 9, 2008, archived from the original on December 11, 2008 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .