Kathmandu - New Delhi

On January 25, 1970 at 07:13 PM, Kathmandu - New Delhi experienced a crash involving Fokker F27 Friendship, operated by Royal Nepal Airlines, with the event recorded near New Delhi-Palam National Capital Territory of Delhi.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

23 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 22 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 4.3%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 18, passenger fatalities: 1, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. On approach to Palam Airport in New Delhi, the crew encountered very bad weather conditions with storm activity, turbulences, rain and windshear. On final, the pilot-in-command lost control of the airplane that was caught by downdrafts and crashed 3 km short of runway 28. A passenger was killed while 22 other occupants were injured. The aircraft was destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration 9N-AAR, MSN 10290, year of manufacture 1965.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 28.5956°, 77.0809°.