ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 139283
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| Date: | Sunday 16 October 2011 |
| Time: | afternoon |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Owner/operator: | Nepal Airlines (on behalf of Tara Air) |
| Registration: | 9N-ABO |
| MSN: | 638 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 19 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | Lukla Airport - VNLK -
 Nepal
|
| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Lukla Airport - VNLK |
| Tribhuvan Int'l - VNKT - Kathmandu | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A Nepal Airlines DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 had minor accident Sunday afternoon after it skidded off the runway at Lukla Airport - VNLK, in Solukhumbu district and hit a sidewall and damaging the nose of the aircraft. The incident happened during taxi for the take-off. The aircraft was hired by Tara Air.
The Twin Otter went out of control due to the failure of the hydraulic break at the runway, according to airport sources.
19 persons on board the aircraft including 16 passengers and 3 crew members are safe.
Sources:
http://admin.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=37205
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://nepalnews.com/archive/2011/oct/oct16/news15.php]
http://web.archive.org/web/20111106220149/http://www.nepalmountainnews.com:80/cms/?p=40619
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 16 May 2013 | 9N-ABO | Nepal Airlines | 0 | Jomsom Airport (JMO) | |
sub |
| Runway excursion | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Oct-2011 06:56 | gerard57 | Added |
| 17-Oct-2011 07:20 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Oct-2011 12:01 | Geno | Updated [Destination airport, Source] |
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