ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334655
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| Date: | Sunday 5 August 1956 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Handley Page HP.81 Hermes IVA |
| Owner/operator: | Britavia |
| Registration: | G-ALDK |
| MSN: | HP.81/12 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1950 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 72 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Karachi-Drigh Road Airforce Station -
 Pakistan
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | |
| Karachi International Airport (KHI/OPKC) |
The Britavia Handley Page Hermes tried to land at the wrong airfield, Drigh Road instead of Karachi, in heavy rain. The aircraft undershot the runway.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "An undershooting of the runway 07 selected for landing attributable to the failure of the aircraft's left wind-shield wiper. The secondary cause was a mistake in confusing runway 08 at PAF airfield Drigh Road, with runway 07 at Karachi Airport (the latter being the correct runway for use) when landing in meteorological conditions below those recommended as minima by the Pakistan Department of Civil Aviation."
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