Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight 426 · Bangladesh
On August 5, 1984, Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight 426 (Bangladesh). 49 people died.
- Date
- August 5, 1984
- Place
- Bangladesh
- Killed
- 49
- Position
- 23.860°N, 90.382°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q18088261
From Wikipedia
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight 426 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Patenga Airport, Chittagong (now Shah Amanat International Airport) and Zia International Airport, Dhaka. On 5 August 1984, the aircraft operating the flight, a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27-600 crashed into a marsh near Zia International Airport (now Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport) in Dhaka, Bangladesh while landing in poor weather. All 49 occupants (45 passengers, 4 crews) had died on crash, making it the second deadliest aviation accident involving a Bangladeshi airliner behind US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 and the deadliest to happen inside Bangladeshi territory to date.
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