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Date: | Monday 4 October 1976 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas DC-7CF |
Owner/operator: | Emirates Air Transport |
Registration: | TZ-ARC |
MSN: | 45467/970 |
Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 140 km NNE of Nairobi -
Kenya
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Nairobi (unknown airport) |
Narrative:The aircraft struck the cloud-covered Mount Kenya, while descending from FL150.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Premature descent.
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Images:
photo (c) AeroTransport Data Bank
photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Miami International Airport, FL (MIA); 27 August 1973
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