Air Bagan crash landing near Heho Airport
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 25 DEC 2012 |
| Time: | 08:50 |
| Type: | Fokker 100 |
| Operator: | Air Bagan |
| Registration: | XY-AGC |
| C/n / msn: | 11327 |
| First flight: | 1991-02-22 (21 years 10 months) |
| Engines: | 2 Rolls Royce 650-15 Tay |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 65 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 71 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | ca 1 km S of Heho Airport (HEH) (Myanmar)  |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Mandalay-Annisaton Airport (MDL) (MDL/VYMD), Myanmar |
| Heho Airport (HEH) (HEH/VYHH), Myanmar | |
| Flightnumber: | 011 |
Narrative:
A Fokker 100 operated by Air Bagan was destroyed in an accident near Heho Airport (HEH), Myanmar. Flight W9-011 carried 65 passengers and six crew members.
Eight passengers were injured, one passenger, a tour guide, was killed. A person who was travelling on a motor cycle on the ground was hit by the aircraft as it landed and was also killed.
Flight 011 departed Mandalay-Annisaton Airport (MDL) at 08:28. It was approaching runway 36 at Heho Airport in fog when it struck powerlines along National Highway 4. It then crash-landed in a paddy about 1 km short of the runway. The fuselage broke in two and a fire erupted, destroying the plane.
Heho Airport has a single asphalt runway (18/36) without ILS. There is only an NDB beacon at the field.
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