Aircraft 9N-AHA

Summary

On 28 September 2012 at about 06:20 local time, a an aircraft of an unrecorded type registered 9N-AHA, operated by Sita Air, was involved in an accident near Kathmandu, Nepal. 19 people were on board and 19 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

28 September 2012 at 06:20

Classification

Accident

Location

Kathmandu, Nepal

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Not recorded

Registration

9N-AHA

Operator

Sita Air

Operating rule

Non-U.S., Commercial

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

NTSB number

DCA12RA153

19 people died.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

On September 28, 2012, a Sita Air Dornier 228, registration 9N-AHA, with Garrett (Honeywell) TPE 331 engines, reported a bird strike shortly and crash shortly after takeoff from Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM), Kathmandu, Nepal. The three crew members and 16 passengers onboard were fatally injured and the airplane was destroyed. The flight was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from KTM to Lukla Airport (LUA), Lukla, Nepal. The investigation is being conducted by the Nepal Ministry of Tourism. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Manufacture and Design of the engines.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.