Date: | Sunday 20 July 2014 |
Time: | 17:45 |
Type: | ATR 72-212 |
Owner/operator: | United Airways |
Registration: | S2-AFN |
MSN: | 379 |
Year of manufacture: | 1993 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 48 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Cox's Bazar Airport (CXB) -
Bangladesh
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Dhaka-Shahjalal International Airport (DAC/VGHS) |
Destination airport: | Cox's Bazar Airport (CXB/VGCB) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:A United Airways ATR-72-212, S2-AFN, was damaged in a landing accident at Cox's Bazar Airport (CXB), Bangladesh. The airplane had arrived from Dhaka as United Airways' flight 501. After landing the nose gear collapsed, causing severe damage to the forward fuselage of the airplane.
The airplane was removed from the runway after 22 hours.
Sources:
The Daily Star
Location
Images:
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photo (c) Leslie Snelleman; Calcutta-Netaji Subhas Chandra Airport (CCU/VECC); 21 March 2014
![](/photos/wiki/2014/20140720_AT72_S2-AFN_19983.jpg)
photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Mönchengladbach Airport (MGL/EDLN); 22 September 2005
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