Rawalpindi – Skardu

On October 8, 1965 at 06:30 AM, Rawalpindi – Skardu experienced a crash involving Fokker F27 Friendship, operated by Pakistan International Airlines - PIA, with the event recorded near Mahandri Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (<U+062E><U+06CC><U+0628><U+0631><U+067E><U+062E><U+062A><U+0648><U+0646><U+062E><U+0648><U+0627>).

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

4 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The aircraft took off from Rawalpindi Airport at 0601LT on a domestic flight to Skardu, carrying 9,146 pounds of food supplies. At 0604LT, it called Cherat Homer stating that it was due at control zone boundary at 0610LT. According to the Chakhlala ATC log the aircraft called Skardu at 0607LT on 119.7 but there was no response from Skardu on this frequency. According to the Skardu log: Skardu asked Gilgit at 0620LT to listen out for the aircraft and advise it to change over to 5514 kcs. The aircraft called Skardu at 0630LT on 5514 kcs. There was no further communication with the aircraft. It was subsequently found that the aircraft had struck the northern side of a ridge at an elevation of 13,100 feet just inside Pakistan territory near the Pakistan-Azad Kashmir border. The aircraft was destroyed and all four crew members were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration AP-ATT, MSN 10279, year of manufacture 1965.