Srinagar – Jammu – Amritsar – New Delhi

On February 7, 1966 at 11:55 AM, Srinagar – Jammu – Amritsar – New Delhi experienced a crash involving Fokker F27 Friendship, operated by Indian Airlines, with the event recorded near Banihal Jammu and Kashmir.

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

37 people were known to be on board, 37 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: 33, passenger fatalities: 33, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. A Fokker F-27, Series 200, aircraft, PH-SAB, owned by the Schreiner Airways of Holland, and operated by the Indian Airlines Corporation on a charter contract, met with an accident shortly before noon on 7 February 1966. The aircraft was on a scheduled flight from Srinagar to Delhi with intermediate stops at Jammu and Amritsar. It crashed on a hilltop in the Pir Panjal range at a spot 12 miles west of its proper course which lay over the Banihal Pass 33'30'' N, 75'14" E (altitude 9 290 ft). All members of the crew and all the 33 passengers on board were killed and the aircraft was totally destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration PH-SAB, MSN 10271, year of manufacture 1965.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 33.4508°, 75.1891°.