ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326416
| Date: | Wednesday 30 November 1988 |
| Time: | 07:20 |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Owner/operator: | Aero Club Libya |
| Registration: | 5A-DDD |
| MSN: | 670 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Hamada al Hamra -
 Libya
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Hamada al Hamra Airfield |
| Tripoli International Airport (TIP/HLLT) |
The Twin Otter left the oil fields at Hamada around 07:05 on a regular daily oilfield crew-change flight to Tripoli (TIP). Twelve employees of Arabian Gulf Oil Co/AGOCO and Halliburton Company were on board. Due to military activities in the area of the flight route, the crew were instructed to return to Hamada. In the meantime a thick morning mist had suddenly precipitated at Hamada. The crew circled the area for a while. While attempting to land, the plane contacted an asphalted pipeline bridge which was crossing just west of the main [concrete] runway, hit a wooden electrical pylon, came to rest and burnt.
He pilot had probably mistaken the bridge for the runway. Also, a DF beacon was located about half a mile offset westwards from the runway.
Sources:
Patrick Conroy-Hargrave by e-mail 3-9-2006
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