Let L-410 havarert i Nepal - Curt Lewis

Summit Air Let L-410UVP-E20 Fatal accident Status: Preliminary Date: Saturday 27 May 2017 Time: 14:04 Type: Let L-410UVP-E20 Operator: Summit Air Registration: 9N-AKY C/n / msn: 2917 First flight: 2014 Crew: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 Total: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 Airplane damage: Destroyed Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: Lukla-Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA) (   Nepal) Phase: Landing (LDG) Nature: Cargo Departure airport: Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM/VNKT), Nepal Destination airport: Lukla-Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA/VNLK), Nepal Flightnumber: 409 Narrative: A Let L-410UVP-E20 operated by Summit Air was destroyed in an accident when it attempted to land on runway 06 at Lukla-Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Nepal. The aircraft operated on a cargo flight from Katmandu with a crew of three. The captain can copilot both sustained fatal injuries. The precise circumstances are unclear. Unconfirmed news reports suggest that the aircraft hit a pine tree, three metres below the runway threshold level before landing. Photos from the scene show the aircraft came to rest on a steep rocky and wooded downslope, next to the airport perimeter fence.

Goma Air crash: Civil Aviation Ministry forms 5-member probe commission The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has formed a five member probe commission under the coordination of former Civil Aviation Authority Nepal (CAAN) Director General Triratna Manandhar to probe the crash of a cargo flight of Goma Air at Lukla Airport on Saturday noon. A senior pilot and co-pilot were killed and a crew member injured when a cargo flight of Goma Air crashed as it was trying to land at Lukla Airport yesterday afternoon. The probe committee comprises of Manadhar including members-- Colonel at the Directorate General of Army Aviation, Captain Ashish Narsingh Rana, Senior Captain at Tara Air Bodh Raj Niraula, Senior Engineer at Manang Air, Digambar Rajbhandari and Civil Aviation Ministry Joint Secretary Suresh Acharya as the member secretary of the commission. Injured flight attendant Pragya Maharjan has been airlifted to Grande International Hospital in Kathmandu this morning via Manang Air helicopter. Captain Paras Rai was already pronounced dead at the hospital yesterday. The dead bodies of the pilots have also been airlifted to Kathmandu this morning. On duty air traffic controller Ujjwal Tiwari said "The plane with call sign 9N-AKY slammed into the mound, fell 100 metres and broke into three pieces as it was preparing to land at 2:05pm."