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This plane crash takes us to the Asian country of Bangladesh, which is located next to the following countries: Myanmar, India and The Bay of Bengal is south of the country.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident plane.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight 426 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Patenga Airport, Chittagong (now Shah Amanat International Airport, IATA: CGP, ICAO: VGEG) and Zia International Airport (IATA: DAC, ICAO: VGHS), Dhaka. On the 5th of August 1984, the aircraft operating the flight, a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27-600 crashed into a marsh near Zia International Airport (now Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport) in Dhaka, Bangladesh while landing in poor weather. All 49 occupants (45 passengers, 4 crews) had died on crash, making it the second deadliest aviation accident involving a Bangladeshi airliner behind US Bangla flight 211 (Crashed due to pilot error) and the deadliest to happen inside Bangladeshi territory to date.
The aircraft, a Fokker F27-600 registered as S2-ABJ (Sierra 2- Alpha Bravo Juliet), was manufactured in 1971. It first flew for Indian Airlines but it was given to Biman in 1972, as a part of all the support given to Bangladesh by the Government of India following Bangladesh's Independence. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had flown more than 24,000 cycles and more than 15,500 airframe hours.
The captain of the flight was Kayes Ahmed Majumdar, an experienced pilot who had logged 5,000 flying hours. The first officer was Kaniz Fatema Roksana, who was the first female commercial pilot of Bangladesh.
The weather conditions in Dhaka were poor on the day of the accident; there was turbulence and heavy rain made visibility very poor. Amid these conditions, the crew first attempted a VOR approach to Zia International Airport's runway 32. As the runway was not spotted by either crew member, a missed approach was executed. The crew then tried an ILS approach on runway 14 of the same airport, but a missed approach had to be executed again as both pilots had failed to spot the runway once again. On the crew's third approach (second on runway 14), the plane got too low while it was still several hundred meters from the runway but neither crew member realised this (due to the poor visibility) and the plane crashed into a swamp about 550 meters short of the runway.
There were a total of 45 passengers and 4 crew members on board the flight, all of whom perished in the crash. There was one British and one Japanese among the passengers, and the rest were Bangladeshi. Thirty-three of the passengers were traveling to Dhaka to catch connecting flights to the Middle East.
The summary of the crash was Controlled flight into terrain in bad weather.
