Accident | |
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Date | 25 December 2012 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error |
Site | Heho Airport, Heho, Myanmar 20°43′30″N 096°47′31″E / 20.72500°N 96.79194°E |
Total fatalities | 2 |
Total injuries | 10 |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Fokker 100 |
Operator | Air Bagan |
IATA flight No. | W9011 |
ICAO flight No. | JAB011 |
Call sign | AIR BAGAN 011 |
Registration | XY-AGC |
Flight origin | Yangon International Airport |
Stopover | Mandalay International Airport |
Destination | Heho Airport |
Occupants | 71 |
Passengers | 65 |
Crew | 6 |
Fatalities | 1 |
Injuries | 9 |
Survivors | 70 |
Ground casualties | |
Ground fatalities | 1 |
Ground injuries | 1 |
Air Bagan Flight 011 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight of a Fokker 100 twinjet from Yangon to Heho, Myanmar. On 25 December 2012, the aircraft crash-landed short of the runway at Heho Airport in fog, coming to a stop in a paddy field and bursting into flames. One of the 71 people on board and a motorcyclist on the ground were killed and more than 10 people were injured.[1][2][3]
The Myanmar Accident Investigation Bureau (MAIB) concluded that the pilots had not followed the proper procedure for an approach to Heho. During their landing attempt, the crew decided to continue their descent below the minimum decision altitude (MDA) even though they had not obtained visual contact with the runway. The pilots' high workload and the decision to assign the First Officer as pilot flying (PF) without sufficient judgement further contributed to the crash.[4]
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