Accident | |
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Date | 12 October 2010 |
Summary | Crashed into a mountain peak while in approach sequence |
Site | Near Hamid Karzai International Airport |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | L-100 Hercules |
Operator | Transafrik International |
IATA flight No. | PQ662 |
ICAO flight No. | TKU662[citation needed] |
Call sign | Transafrik 662 |
Registration | 5X-TUC |
Flight origin | Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan |
Destination | Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan |
Occupants | 8 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 8 |
Survivors | 0 |
Transafrik International Flight 662 (aka TKU662), was an L-100 cargo aircraft registered to Transafrik International of Uganda and leased to National Air Cargo "NAC" on a flight from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.[1] The aircraft impacted a mountain peak near the Kabul Airport causing the deaths of all eight crewmembers aboard.[2][3]
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