Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 20 APR 1979 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47A-20-DK |
| Operator: | Ethiopian Airlines |
| Registration: | ET-AGU |
| C/n / msn: | 13026 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | Oborso (Ethiopia) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Oborso, Ethiopia |
While on finals, the Dakota struck stones marking the runway 11 threshold. During the landing roll the right hand gear collapsed. The aircraft was repaired and was damaged beyond repair in an accident five months later.
Sources:
» Bringing Africa thogether / Ethiopian Airlines, 1988
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
