Tara Air Flight 193

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Tara Air Flight 193
Twin engine passenger aircraft on the ground
A DHC-6 of Tara Airlines, similar to the crashed aircraft
Accident summary
Date 24 February 2016 (2016-02-24)
Summary Under Investigation
Site Dana, Myagdi district, Nepal
Passengers 20
Crew 3
Fatalities 23 (all)
Survivors 0
Aircraft type Viking Air DHC-6-400 Twin Otter
Operator Tara Air
Registration 9N-AHH
Flight origin Pokhara Airport, Pokhara
Destination Jomsom Airport, Jomsom
Tara Air Flight 193 is located in Nepal
PKR
PKR
Dana
Dana
JMO
JMO
A map showing the locations of Pokhara Airport (PKR), Jomson Airport (JMO) and Dana, the location where the crash site was found.

Tara Air Flight 193 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight, serving the route from Pokhara Airport in Pokhara, Nepal, to Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal. On 24 February 2016, eight minutes after take-off, the aircraft serving the flight, a Viking Air DHC-6-400 Twin Otter with registration 9N-AHH, went missing with 23 people on board.[1][2][3] Nepal's police and army dispatched three helicopters to search for the missing aircraft; the search was hampered by bad weather. Hours later, the wreckage was found near Dana village, Myagdi district, alongside several charred bodies. There were no survivors.[4] With 23 fatalities, this was Tara Air's deadliest aircraft crash, surpassing the 2010 Okhaldhunga Twin Otter crash which killed 22 people. The crash was also the twenty-second loss of a DHC-6 in Nepal, the seventh-deadliest aircraft crash in Nepal, and the world's fourth-deadliest accident involving a DHC-6.[5][6]

Aircraft

The DHC-6 Twin Otter was a Series 400 version built in 2012 by Viking Air with manufacturer's serial number 926.[7] In September 2015, it was delivered to Tara Air and registered 9N-AHH.[7][8][6]

Passengers

Of the 20 passengers on board, 18 – including 2 children[9] – were from Nepal, one was from Hong Kong, and another was from Kuwait.[10]

Flight

The aircraft took off from Pokhara at 7:50 am local time. The normal flight duration on the route is 18 minutes. The control tower officers at Pokhara lost contact with the aircraft 10 minutes after takeoff,[10] the wreckage was found at Tirkhe Dhunga, Dana VDC of Myagdi district at 1:25 pm by a police team deployed from Dana Police Post.[9] Tara Air reported that the weather at both origin and destination airports was favourable.[10]

Recovery

Helicopters were used to search the route for hours, but rescue efforts were slowed down by poor weather conditions, including dense fog and heavy rain.[11] The wreckage was found burning after impacting a mountainside, with charred bodies visible inside.[12] Bishwa Raj Khadka, the district Chief of Police,[13] stated that personnel involved in the rescue operations had recovered 17 bodies from the crash site.[14]

Investigation

A "high level probe panel" was formed to investigate the crash.[2] The wreckage of the aircraft was found "in an area of some 200 meters [660 feet]",[15] in Solighopte in Myagdi District, a part of Dhaulagiri Zone.[16][17]

See also

References

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