Tribhuvan International Airport - Incidents and Accidents

Incidents and Accidents

• 10 May 1972 – A Douglas DC-8 of Thai Airways International overran the runway on landing at Kathmandu International Airport. There was 1 fatality out of 100 passengers and 10 crew on board.
• 31 July 1992 – An Airbus 310-304, operating as Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashed into a mountain while approaching Kathmandu killing all 113 on board.
• 28 September 1992 – An Airbus A300B4-203 operating as PIA Flight 268, 59 days after Thai Airways International Flight 311, crashed killing all 167 on board.
• 17 January 1995 – Royal Nepal Airlines De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 (9N-ABI), flight RA133 from Kathmandu to Rumjatar, had problems getting airborne at Tribhuvan International Airport, struck the airfield perimeter fence and plunged into fields. Of three crew and 21 passengers on board, one crew member and one passenger were killed.
• 5 September 1999 – Necon Air Flight 128 from Pokhara to Kathmandu, an BAe 748-501 Super 2B (9N-AEG), collided with a communication tower of Nepal Telecommunication Corporation and crashed in a wooded area 25 km west of Kathmandu, while approaching Tribhuvan International Airport. All 10 passengers and 5 crew were killed.
• 26 December 1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 plane was hijacked en route from Kathmandu to Delhi. The aircraft eventually ended up in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Indian Airlines suspended all flights to and from Nepal for some time, fearing lack of security at check in.
• 24 December 2008 – A Nepal Airlines DHC6 Twin otter 300(9N ABM) ran off the runway during takeoff
• 24 August 2010 – Agni Air Flight 101, a Dornier Do 228 aircraft, registration 9N-AHE, crashed into the hills outside Kathmandu in heavy rain. All on board (3 crew, 11 passengers) were killed, with the pilot having reported a generator failure. The plane, crashed near Shikharpur village, 80 km (50 mi) south of Kathmandu. There were six foreigners on board, four Americans, one Japanese and one UK citizen. Witnesses said the plane had broken into small pieces. The plane had left Tribhuvan International Airport, bound for Tenzing-Hillary Airport.
• 15 December 2010 – A Tara Air Twin otter Plane leaving from Lamidanda's Lamidanda Airport,for Kathmandu lost signal 162 km (101 mi) east of Kathmandu.There were 19 passengers and three crew members on board the plane.All passengers were Bhutanese citizens and the three crew members were Nepali citizens.It was later found that the plane had been in a crash and all the passengers and crew members died and their bodies were all scattered around the crash site.
• 25 September 2011 – A Beechcraft 1900D passenger plane, operated by Buddha Air, struck terrain while on approach to Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM), Nepal. There were 16 tourists and 3 crew members on board. Initial reports say there was one survivor, but this person died on the way to the hospital. The weather was overcast with very low clouds on the approach. Flights were operating normally under VFR rules at the time of the accident. The Beech 1900 was on the base leg of the approach following a sightseeing flight.
• 28 September 2012 - A Sita Air plane crashes soon after take-off, after apparently hitting an eagle.Investigators have also come near to a conclusion that the aircraft could have been landed safely if the pilot had not made an steep turn in effort to reach the airport, just 500 yards away from the crash site, due to nervousness.