Status: Preliminary
Date: 10 JUL 2006
Time: 12:00
Type: Fokker F-27 Friendship 200
Operator: Pakistan International Airlines - PIA
Registration: AP-BAL
C/n / msn: 10243
First flight: 1964
Engines: 2 Rolls Royce 532-7 Dart
Crew: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Passengers: Fatalities: 41 / Occupants: 41
Total: Fatalities: 45 / Occupants: 45
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: near Multan Airport (MUX) ( Pakistan
Phase: Initial climb
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Multan Airport (MUX / OPMT), Pakistan Destination airport: Lahore Airport (LHE / OPLA), Pakistan
Flightnumber: 688
Narrative:
Shortly after takeoff the airplane reportedly suffered engine problems. It struck an electric power line before crashing in a field. The F-27 broke up and caught fire.
Sources:
'No survivors' in Pakistan crash (BBC,10-7-2006)
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AIRCRAFT PROFILE FOKKER F-27
* Last fatal hull-loss accident: 16 APR 2006 Transporte Aéreo Militar - TAM FAB-91, Guayaramerín, Bolivia
- 1 fatality
* Total number of F-27 hull-losses: 161 losses (148 accidents, 7 criminal occurrences, 4 other [ground damage/fire] and 2 unknown occurrences)
* 9th worst F-27 accident
* Survival rate for all fatal F-27 accidents: on average 28,7% of all occupants survived fatal accidents
* history of msn 10243
- PH-FFI (24 JAN 1964 , first flight)
- JA8624 All Nippon Airways (FEB 1964, delivered)
- F-BUFE TAT (MAR 1973, bought)
- AP-BAL PIA (JAN 1979, bought)
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OPERATOR PROFILE PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES - PIA Pakistani national airline.
* founded: 1946
* web site: http://www.piac.com.pk
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COUNTRY PROFILE PAKISTAN
* Last fatal hull-loss accident: 20 FEB 2003 Pakistan Air Force F-27, near Kohat, Pakistan - 17 fatalities
* Third worst hull loss accident
* The country is rated Cat. 1 (meeting ICAO Standards) in FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)