Hamburg – Tehran - Dhaka

On December 2, 1970 at 04:00 PM, Hamburg – Tehran - Dhaka experienced a crash involving Canadair CL-44, operated by Cargolux, with the event recorded near Dhaka Dhaka.

The flight was categorized as humanitarian and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a city crash site.

4 people were known to be on board, 8 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 200.0%.

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

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The aircraft was completing a humanitarian flight from Hamburg to Dhaka with an intermediate stop in Tehran, carrying a crew of four and 27,5 tons of foods on behalf of the International Red Cross Comity. On final approach to Dhaka-Tejgaon Airport, the airplane went out of control and crashed onto several houses located in a district 10 km northwest of the airport. All four crew members were killed as well as four people on the ground.

Aircraft reference details include registration TF-LLG, MSN 36, year of manufacture 1964.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 23.8203°, 90.3710°.