Pamir Airways Flight 112
Antonov An-24 · Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and ATC error in bad weather
From Kunduz Airport (UND) to Kabul International Airport (KBL)
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's fatalities. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG10RA056
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 44 · all aircraft and ground Narrative disagrees
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 44
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Antonov An-24
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-24
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- YA-PIS
- Operator
- Pamir Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- 44
- Route
- From Kunduz Airport (UND)To Kabul International Airport (KBL)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Unknown
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Pamir Airways Flight 112 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kunduz Airport, Kunduz to Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. On 17 May 2010, the flight operated by an Antonov An-24 crashed into terrain shortly before it was scheduled to land in Kabul, killing all 39 passengers and 5 crew.
The flight
Flight 112 departed Kunduz at 8:30 am local time (UTC+04:30) and all contact with the flight, including on radar, was lost 10 minutes later.
Reports stated that the plane crashed in Salang Pass, 100 km north of Kabul International Airport, at a speed of approximately 400 km/h. The wreckage was eventually located only 20 km from Kabul. The weather conditions were reported as poor, with a senior military commander describing the weather as "...very bad. It is snowing. There is flooding."
An inquest in the United Kingdom stated that the accident report determined that the cause of the accident was the failure of the captain to maintain adequate clearance from terrain. The crew had contacted air traffic control to ask for permission to descend. Air traffic control had denied this request, however the crew decided to descend regardless. Air traffic control did not warn the crew they were descending too quickly and into danger. Additionally, the crew misunderstood a ground proximity warning system alert, either due to language problems or because of previous false alerts.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Pamir Airways Flight 112” (revision 1349248608, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
NTSB narrative
On May 17, 2010 about 0840 Local Time, a Antonov An-24, registration YA-PIS, operated by Pamir Airways as flight 112, impacted mountainous terrain en route from Konduz Airport to Kabul International Airport. All 39 passengers and 5 flight crew members were killed.
This accident is under the jurisdiction of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The NTSB has been requested to assist the examination and extraction of information from the accident airplane's Terrain Awareness and Warning System.
Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Ansari Watt Kabul, Afghanistan
Telephone: +93-[0] 20-210 10 30
www.motca.gov.af
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Wikipedia article: Pamir Airways Flight 112
- Article
- Pamir Airways Flight 112
- Revision
- 1349248608 · 2026-04-16 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q1681634
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ENG10RA056
- Event ID
- 20101001X32228
- Case number
- ENG10RA056
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Pamir Airways Flight 112" (page 27382228, revision 1349248608); merged with NTSB case ENG10RA056 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record ENG10RA056
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Pamir Airways Flight 112" and NTSB case ENG10RA056, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.