Incident Details
On 10 March 1983, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 aircraft, operated by Bakhtar Afghan Airlines, was involved in an aviation accident near Shashgow, Ghazni. The incident resulted in 19 fatalities.
Aircraft and Operator
The aircraft involved was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300, a twin-engine turboprop utility aircraft. The operator was Bakhtar Afghan Airlines, the national carrier of Afghanistan at the time.
Casualties
According to the report, 19 fatalities were recorded as a result of the accident. No other details about injuries or survivors were provided in the source.
Context
This accident is catalogued in the Wikidata aviation-safety dataset, which tracks over three thousand documented aircraft accidents and occurrences spanning the history of powered flight. Such records are used by researchers to analyze safety trends and recurring factors.