PIA Flight 268
Wreckage of Flight PK-268
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 28 September 1992 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain, Pilot error |
| Site | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Passengers | 155 |
| Crew | 12 |
| Fatalities | 167 (all) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Airbus A300B4-203 |
| Operator | Pakistan International Airlines |
| Registration | AP-BCP |
| Flight origin | Jinnah International Airport |
| Destination | Tribhuvan International Airport |
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 was an Airbus A300, registration AP-BCP, which crashed on approach to Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport on 28 September 1992. All 167 on board were killed. It is the 100th aviation disaster with more than 100 fatalities and the deadliest aviation crash to occur on Nepalese soil.
Flight 268 departed Karachi at 11:13 AM Pakistan Standard Time for Kathmandu. Upon contacting Nepalese air traffic control, the aircraft was cleared for an approach from the south called the Sierra approach. An aircraft cleared to use this approach was at the time directed to pass over a reporting point called "Romeo" located 41 miles south of the Kathmandu VOR (or at 41 DME) at an altitude of 15,000 feet. The aircraft was to then descend in seven steps to 5,800 feet, passing over a reporting point known as "Sierra" located at 10 DME at an altitude of 9,500 feet, before landing at Kathmandu. This approach allowed aircraft to pass over the Mahabharat Range directly south of Kathmandu (the crest of which is located just north of the Sierra reporting point) at a safe altitude.
Shortly after reporting at 10 DME, at 2.30 pm the aircraft crashed at approximately 7,300 feet (2,200 m) into the side of the 8,250 ft (2,524 m) mountain at Bhatti Danda, disintegrating on impact, instantly killing all aboard; the tail fin separated and fell into the forest at the base of the mountainside.
This accident occurred 59 days after Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashed north of Kathmandu.
British poet Dominic Sasse, father of (future) actor Joshua Sasse, was a passenger on the flight.
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