Sulur - Sulur

On February 5, 1958 at 12:00 AM, Sulur - Sulur experienced a crash involving Consolidated B-24 Liberator, operated by Indian Air Force - Bharatiya Vayu Sena, with the event recorded near Palakkad Kerala.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

10 people were known to be on board, 10 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 10, crew fatalities: 10, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew departed Sulur AFB, Tamil Nadu, on a training mission. En route, weather conditions deteriorated and the pilot-in-command decided to gain altitude when the aircraft hit the slope of a mountain shrouded in clouds and located in the region of Palakkad. All ten crew members were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration HE842.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 10.8073°, 76.6300°.