1969 Royal Nepal Airlines Douglas DC-3 crash
Douglas DC-3 · Controlled flight into terrain
From Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal to Simara Airport, Nepal
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
- 35 · 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
Douglas DC-3
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-3
- 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
- 9N-AAP
- Operator
- Nepal Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 35
- Route
- From Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, NepalTo Simara Airport, Nepal
Approximate · Estimated position: Hetauda, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 12 July 1969, a Royal Nepal Airlines Douglas DC-3 crashed en route from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu to Simara Airport; all 4 crew members and 31 passengers on board were killed, and the wreckage was eventually found in the Hetauda area of Nepal. The Nepalese government launched an investigation immediately after determining the coordinates of the wreckage.
Accident
The flight involved was a scheduled passenger flight operating between Kathmandu and Simara, with a cruising altitude of 7300 feet (2200 metres), and the route passed over the mountainous Hetauda area. While flying over Hetauda, because visibility was extremely low at the time, the captain failed to adjust the aircraft's altitude in time, causing the aircraft to strike a mountain, after which it caught fire and crashed; all 4 crew members and 31 passengers on board were killed. This was also the third flight accident of Royal Nepal Airlines (Nepal's only airline), and the most serious of the three.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “1969年尼泊尔航空道格拉斯DC-3班机空难” (revision 83547121, 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
Chinese Wikipedia article: 1969年尼泊尔航空道格拉斯DC-3班机空难
- Article
- 1969年尼泊尔航空道格拉斯DC-3班机空难
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 83547121 · 2024-07-25 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q60747805
- 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
- zh Wikipedia article "1969年尼泊尔航空道格拉斯DC-3班机空难" (page 6806828, revision 83547121), 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 Chinese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.