Date: | Wednesday 8 March 1967 |
Time: | |
Type: | Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair |
Owner/operator: | Compagnie Air Transport - CAT |
Registration: | F-BMHU |
MSN: | 4/10338 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Karachi -
Pakistan
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Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Karachi International Airport (KHI/OPKC) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:On a cargo flight to Australia the aircraft diverted into Karachi on 3 March, 1967, for the failed no 2 engine to be changed and tested, and the aircraft was again readied for flight. At a high cargo loading the aircraft took off and experienced a failure of no 2 engine, followed immediately by an under-performing no 1 engine and, in an attempt to make a safe forced landing, the captain elected to land on the National Highway near the airport. The aircraft struck a railway bridge, lorries and a rickshaw, killing 4 of the 6 crew and several on the ground.
Sources:
Air Bridge 2 : the story of the use of the ATL98 Carvair / Paul A Doyle, pub 2000 by Forward Airfield Research Publishing, ISBN 09525 624 72
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