Summary Pilot error Crew 4 Survivors 19 Number of deaths 34 Operator Malaysia Airlines Passenger count 49 | Passengers 49 Fatalities 34 Date 15 September 1995 Destination Tawau Airport Survivor 19 | |
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Site Tawau Airport, Malaysia Similar Malaysian Airline System Fl, Malaysian Airline System Fl, Banat Air Flight 166, Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701, Nigeria Airways Flight 357 | ||
Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 (MH2133/MAS2133) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight that crashed due to pilot error on 15 September 1995, taking the lives of 32 of the 49 passengers and 2 of the 4 crew, 34 in all. The plane crashed into a town, Tawau in Sabah, Malaysia during approach, after a failed go-around. This was the first hull loss of a Fokker 50.
Accident
The aircraft involved was a Fokker 50 manufactured in 1990 with the tail number 9M-MGH. There were 49 passengers, two pilots, and two crew aboard the aircraft. The scheduled flight time was one hour.
At 12:22 local time, while the aircraft was approaching runway 17 at Tawau Airport, it landed 500 metres outside the runway and crashed into a shantytown. 34 people died and 19 survived.
References
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