| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | Wednesday 4 March 2015 |
| Time: | ca 07:45 |
| Type: |  Airbus A330-303 |
| Operator: | THY Turkish Airlines |
| Registration: | TC-JOC |
| C/n / msn: | 1522 |
| First flight: | 2014-04-29 (10 months) |
| Engines: | 2 General Electric CF6-80E1A3 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 11 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 227 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 238 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM) ( Nepal) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Istanbul-Atatürk International Airport (IST/LTBA), Turkey |
| Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM/VNKT), Nepal | |
| Flightnumber: | TK726 |
An Airbus A330-303, operated by THY Turkish Airlines, suffered a runway excursion accident upon landing at Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM), Nepal.
Flight TK726 was a regular passenger service from Istanbul-Atatürk International Airport (IST) to Kathmandu, Nepal. The flight was the first international flight to scheduled to arrive that morning. After descending from cruising altitude, it entered a holding pattern at FL210 at 06:12 hours local time (00:27 UTC) until about 07:00 (01:15 UTC) when it was cleared for a VOR/DME approach to runway 02. This approach was abandoned at about the Missed Approach Point at 1DME and the aircraft performed a go around. The aircraft circled and positioned for a second approach to runway 02. After landing the aircraft went off the left side of the runway. It ran onto soft soil and the nose landing gear collapsed.
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