Lukla Airport
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Incidents and accidents
- On 15 October 1973, on landing at the airport, a Royal Nepal Airlines DHC-6 Twin Otter 300De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin OtterThe DHC-6 Twin Otter is a Canadian 19-passenger STOL utility aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada and currently produced by Viking Air. The aircraft's fixed tricycle undercarriage, STOL abilities and high rate of climb have made it a successful cargo, regional passenger airliner and MEDEVAC...
, registration 9N-ABG, was damaged beyond repair. The three crew and three passengers were unhurt. - On 9 June 1991, flying from Kathmandu, a Royal Nepal Airlines DHC-6 Twin Otter 300, registration 9N-ABA, crashed at the airport while attempting to land following an unstabilized approachUnstabilized approachAn unstabilized approach is an approach during which an aircraft does not maintain at leastone of the following variables stable: speed, descent rate, vertical/lateral flight path and inlanding configuration...
in bad weather. All three crew and fourteen passengers were unhurt. - On 26 September 1992, a Royal Air Nepal Harbin Yunshuji Y-12-11Harbin Y-12-See also:-Bibliography:* Taylor, John W R. . Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1988-89. Coulsdon, Surrey, UK: Jane's Information Group, 1988. ISBN 07106-0867-5....
registered 9N-ACI faltered during take-off and was damaged beyond repair. All on board (twelve passengers and two crew) survived. - On 25 May 2004, while on approach to the airport, a Yeti AirlinesYeti AirlinesYeti Airlines Domestic Pvt. Ltd. is an airline based in Nepal. The airline was established in May 1998 and received its Air Operators Certificate on 17 August 1998. Yeti Airlines is the parent company of Tara Air. Together the two airlines form the largest domestic flight operator in Nepal...
DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 (registration 9N-AFD) flying from Kathmandu crashed into Lamjura Hill in heavy cloud. No passengers were on board, but all three crew members were killed. The Nepalese accident investigation committee concluded that the captain provided inaccurate information as regards his position to the Area Control Centre. - On 1 October 2004, on landing at the airport, a Sita AirSita AirSita Air is an airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal; it operates domestic flights. The airline's main base is Tribhuvan International Airport with hubs at Pokhara Airport and Nepalgunj Airport.- History :...
Dornier Do 228Dornier Do 228The Dornier 228 is a twin-turboprop STOL utility aircraft, manufactured by Dornier GmbH from 1981 until 1998. In 1983, Hindustan Aeronautics bought a production licence and manufactures the 228 for the Asian market sphere. Approximately 270 Do 228 were built at Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and...
suffered a collapse of its nose gear and slid along the runway, blocking it once it had come to rest. The airport was closed for two days. - On 30 June 2005, a Gorkha AirlinesGorkha AirlinesGorkha Airlines is an airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal. It operates scheduled and charter flights to domestic destinations, as well as daily mountain flights in the Himalayas. Its main base is Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu.- History :...
Dornier Do 228 skidded off the runway while attempting to land. The nine passengers and three crew suffered minor injuries. The aircraft was reportedly withdrawn from use and written off after the accident. - On 8 October 2008, Yeti Airlines Flight 103Yeti Airlines Flight 103Yeti Airlines Flight 103, was a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 registered as 9N-AFE. The flight crashed on final approach to Tenzing-Hillary Airport in the town of Lukla in eastern Nepal on 8 October 2008...
, a DHC-6 Twin Otter, crashed on final approach and caught fire, killing eighteen passengers and crew. The aircraft's captain was the only survivor. - On 25 August 2010, Agni Air Flight 101Agni Air Flight 101Agni Air Flight 101 was a regional flight operated by Agni Air between Kathmandu, Nepal and Lukla, Nepal that crashed on 24 August 2010, killing all 14 people on board. 20 minutes after take-off from Kathmandu, the flight crew had reported technical issues with the aircraft, and requested a return...
crashed at ShikharpurShikharpur, NarayaniShikharpur is a village development committee in Makwanpur District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3884 people living in 667 individual households....
while returning to Kathmandu after bad weather had prevented it from reaching Lukla. All eleven passengers and three crew perished. - On 12 October 2010, a Sita AirSita AirSita Air is an airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal; it operates domestic flights. The airline's main base is Tribhuvan International Airport with hubs at Pokhara Airport and Nepalgunj Airport.- History :...
Dornier Do 228Dornier Do 228The Dornier 228 is a twin-turboprop STOL utility aircraft, manufactured by Dornier GmbH from 1981 until 1998. In 1983, Hindustan Aeronautics bought a production licence and manufactures the 228 for the Asian market sphere. Approximately 270 Do 228 were built at Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and...
lost braking control and impacted the wall-end of the runway during landing. All passengers and crew on board survived without injuries and the aircraft received damage to its nose. .
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- Video of operations at the Lukla airport from YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
- Video guide to taking off and landing at Lukla Airport
- (http://www.airliners.net/photo/Tara-Air/Pilatus-PC-6-B2-H4-Turbo/1909594/&sid=0dab62aa9521c6a6d7bd1e275feb155c)