Accident description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 24 MAY 1986 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47 |
| Operator: | Armée de l'Air Malgache |
| Registration: | registration unknown |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Ampanoizankova (Madagascar) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Antananarivo-Ivato Airport (TNR/FMMI), Madagascar |
| Antsirabe Airport (ATJ/FMME), Madagascar |
Flew into the side of a mountain in poor weather.
Adm. Sibon Guy, the defense minister of Madagascar, was killed in the accident.
Events:
Sources:
» Flight International 16 May 1987
» Le livre d'or de l'aviation malgache/J.P.Pénette & C.Pénette Lohau
» Orlando Sentinel
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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.
