Ahwaz – Khark

On June 19, 2016 at 01:35 PM, Ahwaz – Khark experienced a crash involving BAe 146, operated by Mahan Air, with the event recorded near Khark Bushehr.

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.

89 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 89 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 10, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 79, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. On June 19, 2016, Mahan Air flight IRM 4525 was a scheduled passenger flight which took off from Ahwaz Airport at 1257 LMT (0827 UTC) to destination and landed at Khark Island Airport at 1335 LMT (0905 UTC). After delivery of the flight from BUZ approach to Khark tower, the flight was cleared to land on RWY 31 via visual approach. At 10 NM on final the pilot has asked weather information of the destination so, the captain requested to perform a visual approach for RWY 13. Finally the pilot in command accomplished an un-stabilized approach and landed on the runway after passing long distance of the Runway. Regarding to the length of the runway (7,657 feet) the aircraft overran the end of runway and made runway excursion on runway 13 and came to rest on the unpaved surface after 54 meters past the runway end. The nose landing gear strut has broken and collapsed. The captain instructed the cabin crew to evacuate the aircraft. No unusual occurrences were noticed during departure, en-route and descent.

Aircraft reference details include registration EP-MOF, MSN E3149, year of manufacture 1989.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 29.2524°, 50.3263°.