Bakhtar Afghan Airlines accident near Ghazni
de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 · Loss of control
From Uruzgan Airport, Afghanistan to Kabul International Airport (KBL)
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 19 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300
- Aircraft type
- de Havilland DHC-6
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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-GAZ
- Operator
- Bakhtar Afghan Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 19
- Route
- From Uruzgan Airport, AfghanistanTo Kabul International Airport (KBL)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Personnel issues › Physical
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Ghazni, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
In the Bakhtar Afghan Airlines crash near Ghazni, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter of the airline Bakhtar Afghan Airlines crashed on 10 March 1983. All 19 people on board were killed in the accident.
Accident sequence
The aircraft was on the scheduled flight from Uruzgan to Kabul when the weather conditions deteriorated increasingly. The aircraft flew through a zone of rain and thunderstorms, yet the flight was continued under visual flight rules. The captain climbed the aircraft to flight level 185 and thus an altitude of 18,500 feet. At this altitude the air was so thin that the crew of the Twin Otter, which was not equipped with a pressurised cabin, became partially incapacitated due to lack of oxygen. The pilots finally lost control of the aircraft, which then struck a mountainside near Ghazni. All 19 occupants were killed in the accident.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The causes of the accident were determined to be the continuation of a visual flight in instrument meteorological conditions and a partial incapacitation of the crew as a result of lack of oxygen.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall der Bakhtar Afghan Airlines bei Ghazni” (revision 241105331, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall der Bakhtar Afghan Airlines bei Ghazni
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 241105331 · 2024-01-12 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q107551262
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall der Bakhtar Afghan Airlines bei Ghazni" (page 11805581, revision 241105331), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.