Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133
A Malaysia Airlines Fokker 50, similar to the one involved.
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Date | 15 September 1995 |
Summary | Pilot error |
Site | Tawau Airport, Malaysia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Passengers | 49 |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 34 |
Survivors | 19 |
Aircraft type | Fokker 50 |
Operator | Malaysia Airlines |
Registration | 9M-MGH |
Flight origin | Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia |
Destination | Tawau Airport, Malaysia |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 (MH2133/MAS2133) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight that crashed due to pilot error on 15 September 1995, taking the lives of 32 of the 49 passengers and 2 of the 4 crew, 34 in all. The plane crashed into a town, Tawau in Sabah, Malaysia during approach, after a failed go-around. This was the first hull loss of a Fokker 50.[1]
Accident
The aircraft involved was a Fokker 50 manufactured in 1990 with the tail number 9M-MGH. There were 49 passengers, two pilots, and two crew aboard the aircraft. The scheduled flight time was one hour. [2]
At 12:22 local time, while the aircraft was approaching runway 17 at Tawau Airport, it landed 500 metres outside the runway and crashed into a shantytown. [3] 34 people died and 19 survived.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Accident description for 9M-MGH at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 7 March 2014.
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