Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 30 JAN 1987 |
| Type: | Cessna U-27A Caravan I |
| Operator: | Liberian Army Air Reconnaissance Unit |
| Registration: | ARU-021 |
| C/n / msn: | 208-00055 |
| First flight: | 1985 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 18 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 64 km (40 mls) SE off Monrovia (Liberia)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Monrovia-Roberts International Airport (ROB/GLRB), Liberia |
| Cape Palmas-A. Tubman Airport (CPA/GLCP), Liberia |
The Cessna 208 was en route to Maryland County, Liberia (presumably Cape Palmas Airport) when it crashed into the sea.
Sources:
» Terry Smith
» Thomas Brügge
» Miami Herald - January 31, 1987
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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.
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