Calcutta – Bangkok

On May 3, 1999 at 10:30 PM, Calcutta – Bangkok experienced a crash involving Piper PA-60 Aerostar (Ted Smith 600), operated by Aircraft Guaranty Corporation Trustee, with the event recorded near Tambon Tha Chalab Kanchanaburi (<U+0E01><U+0E32><U+0E0D><U+0E08><U+0E19><U+0E1A><U+0E38><U+0E23><U+0E35>).

The flight was categorized as private and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

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

On May 3, 1999, at an unknown time before 2300 Bangkok, Thailand, local time, a Piper PA-60-602P, N602PK, crashed on an air rally flight between Calcutta, India, and Bangkok. The German national pilot was confirmed to have been fatally injured, and his German national passenger was reported missing at the accident scene. The crash site was at the Srinakarin Reservoir, Tambon Tha Chalab, Srisawat district in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok. The airplane was reported to have been due to land at Bangkok's Don Muang airport at 2300 local time on May 3. Adverse weather was reported in the vicinity at the time of the accident. There was no report of an ELT actuation.

Aircraft reference details include registration N602PK, MSN 60-8365-016, year of manufacture 1983.