Sita Air Flight 601
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9N-AHA at Lukla Airport in September 2011
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 28 September 2012 |
| Summary | Impacted ground, burst into flames following bird strike that caused structural damage on climb-out |
| Site | Madhyapur, Bhaktapur District, Nepal Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Passengers | 16 |
| Crew | 3 |
| Fatalities | 19 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Dornier Do 228 |
| Operator | Sita Air |
| Registration | 9N-AHA |
| Flight origin | Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Destination | Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Lukla, Solukhumbu District, Nepal |
Sita Air Flight 601 was a Nepalese domestic flight, due to be operated with a Dornier 228, that crashed on 28 September 2012, three minutes after it departed Tribhuvan International Airport, killing all 19 people on board.
Accident
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Dornier 228-202, registration 9N-AHA, serial number 8123; it was due to operate a domestic scheduled Kathmandu-Lukla flight.[1] Shortly after departing Tribhuvan International Airport, the pilot reported technical issues with the aircraft, and requested to fly it back to the airport.[2] A suspected bird strike occurred,[3][4] as the aircraft may have hit a vulture.[5] Three minutes after take-off, on the way back to the airport, the aircraft crashed on the banks of the Manohara river and caught fire.[2] All 19 people on board perished in the accident.[5] It was the second deadly accident to occur in Nepal in 2012,[6] and the last of at least ten fatal crashes since 2002.[7]
Casualties
All on board died in the crash.[8][9] The nationality of the victims were as follows.[10][11][12]
| Nationality | Fatalities | Total | |
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| Passengers | Crew | ||
 Nepal |
4 | 3 | 7 |
 China |
5 | 0 | 5 |
 United Kingdom |
7 | 0 | 7 |
| Total | 16 | 3 | 19 |
See also
Notes and references
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- ↑ Accident description for 9N-AHA at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 28 December 2012.
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