Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 03 OCT 1978 |
| Type: | Fokker F-27 Friendship 600 |
| Operator: | Burma Airways |
| Registration: | XY-ADY |
| C/n / msn: | 10572 |
| First flight: | 1978 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 854 |
| Cycles: | 796 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 40 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 44 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Sagaing (Myanmar)
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| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Mandalay-Annisaton Airport (MDL/VYMD), Myanmar |
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Both engines lost power on climbout. A forced landing was carried out on a sandbank of the Irrawaddy River.
Sources:
» Willem Wendt
Photos
PH-EXC prior to delivery to Myanma Airways.
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
