PMTair Flight U4 241

PMTair Flight 241

Passengers disembark from a PMTair Antonov An-24, similar to the one that crashed
Accident summary
Date	June 25, 2007 (2007-06-25)
Summary	Inconclusive, CFIT
Site	Northeast of Bokor Mountain in Kampot Province, Cambodia
Passengers	16
Crew	6
Fatalities	22 (all)
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	Antonov An-24B
Operator	PMTair
Registration	XU-U4A
Flight origin	Siem Reap International Airport, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Destination	Sihanoukville International Airport, Sihanoukville, Cambodia

PMTair Flight 241 (U4 241/PMT241) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight, flying from Siem Reap International Airport, Siem Reap to Sihanoukville International Airport, Sihanoukville. The flight was operated by PMTair using an Antonov An-24. On 25 June 2007, the Antonov An-24, registered as XU-U4A, disappeared over Cambodian jungle near Bokor while on approach to Sihanoukville. A massive search and rescue operation occurred, as thousands of soldiers and police scoured the area. The aircraft was found to have crashed in southwestern Cambodia, northeast of Bokor Mountain in Kampot Province. All 22 people on board, most of whom were South Korean tourists, were killed. The crash was the second deadliest plane crash in Cambodia's history and the worst plane crash in Kampot Province. An investigation and inquiry was completed in March 2008, but couldn't conclude the cause of the crash of Flight 241.

The aircraft was making a domestic passenger flight from Angkor International Airport in Siem Reap to Sihanoukville International Airport in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Siem Reap was the main tourist hubs city to Sihanoukville in Cambodia. Siem Reap was a popular tourist city. On the other hand, Sihanoukville was one of the most popular tourist destination. The city was famous for its beaches and site of the famed Angkor Wat temple complex. Tourism industry in Cambodia has improved, and most of the tourists were from South Korea. According to Cambodia's Tourism Ministry, South Korea had the highest number of tourists visiting Cambodia in 2006. Around 221,000 South Koreans were among 2006's total of 1.7 million foreign visitors. The airline, PMTair, was a small Cambodian airline that began flying from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville in January 2007, a new route launched to spur the country's burgeoning tourism industry. According to PMTAir's website, the airline has six roundtrip flights a week between Siem Reap and Incheon and Busan.