http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20101105-0
tatus: Preliminary
Date: 05 NOV 2010
Time: 07:31
Type: Beechcraft 1900C-1
Operator: JS Air
Registration:
C/n / msn:
First flight:
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65B
Crew: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Passengers: Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 17
Total: Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21
Airplane damage: Destroyed
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: ca 1 km W of Karachi-Jinnah International Airport (KHI) (Pakistan) show on map
Phase: Initial climb (ICL)
Nature: Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Karachi-Jinnah International Airport (KHI/OPKC), Pakistan
Destination airport: ?
Narrative:
A Beechcraft 1900C passenger plane, registration unknown, was destroyed in an accident near Karachi-Jinnah International Airport (KHI), Pakistan. All 17 passengers and four crew members were killed. The airplane was chartered by Italian oil company Eni to transport personnel to an oil field near Bhit Shah in Sindh province.
A CAA spokesman reported that the airplane had suffered an engine failure on climbout and the pilot had radioed that he was returning to the airport. The airplane crashed near a residential area in Gulistan-e-Jauhar Town.
Sources:
» Plane crash in Karachi kills 21 (Samaa, 5-11-2010)
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