ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327362
| Date: | Tuesday 11 September 1984 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Handley Page HPR-7 Herald 202 |
| Owner/operator: | MMM Aero Services |
| Registration: | 9Q-CAH |
| MSN: | 159 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1962 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart (series unknown) |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 30 / Occupants: 36 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Bandundu Airport (FDU) -
 Congo (Democratic Republic)
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Kinshasa (unknown airport) |
| Tshikapa Airport (TSH/FZUK) |
The MMM Aero Services HP Herald was en route between Kinshasa and Tshikapa when an engine failed. The crew attempted to carry out a forced landing at Kandala Airstrip, Bandundu Province near the River Kwango. The airplane overran the short airstrip and ran into the village main street. A fire erupted and 30 occupants were killed.
It has also been reported that the accident may have happened at Bandundu Airstrip, not Kandala Airstrip.
Sources:
Air-Britain Archive March 2010, p.42
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Rotterdam Airport (RTM); October 1981
photo (c) Charles Dury; Oostende Airport (OST/EBOS); 05 July 1975
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