Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133
A Malaysia Airlines Fokker 50 similar to the one which crashed. | |
Accident | |
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Date | 15 September 1995 |
Summary | Pilot error |
Site | Tawau Airport, Malaysia 4°18′0″N 118°6′0″E / 4.30000°N 118.10000°E / 4.30000; 118.10000Coordinates: 4°18′0″N 118°6′0″E / 4.30000°N 118.10000°E / 4.30000; 118.10000 |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Fokker 50 |
Operator | Malaysia Airlines |
Registration | 9M-MGH |
Flight origin | Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia |
Destination | Tawau Airport, Malaysia |
Passengers | 49 |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 34 |
Survivors | 19 |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 (MH2133/MAS2133) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kota Kinabalu to Tawau which crashed due to pilot error on 15 September 1995, taking the lives of 32 of the 49 passengers and 2 of the 4 crew on board. The plane crashed 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 cabin 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 on the fringes of the airport.[3] There were 34 fatalities and 19 survivors.[2]
See also
- China Southern Airlines Flight 3456
- China Airlines Flight 676
References
^ Accident description for 9M-MGH at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 7 March 2014.
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^ "Plane Overshoots Runway, Crashes, Killing 34 People". 16 September 1995. Retrieved 8 March 2014.