Necon_Air_Flight_128

Necon Air Flight 128

Necon Air Flight 128

1999 aviation accident

Necon Air Flight 128 (3Z 128/NEC 128) was a scheduled domestic flight from Pokhara Airport to Kathmandu Airport in Nepal on 5 September 1999. The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 crashed when it hit a telecommunications tower.[1][2]

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Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a Series B Hawker Siddeley HS 748 built in 1988, bought from UNI Air in November 1997.[1] At that time, the airline operated three other 748s.

Incident

Flight 128 departed from Pokhara at 10:00 for a 35-minute domestic flight to Kathmandu. While approaching Tribhuvan Airport's runway 02 at 10:25 am local time, the aircraft hit a telecommunications tower, killing all five crew members and all ten passengers.[3] It was Necon Air's second fatal accident in 1999.[2][1]

Passengers and crew

Due to the hard impact into ground after the accident, none of the fifteen occupants survived the crash.[4]

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Accident description". ASN. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Nepal suffers second fatal crash". Flightglobal. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Airdesasters". Airdesasters. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Captain's wife". Nepali Times.
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