Accident description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 21 MAR 1991 |
| Type: | Lockheed C-130H Hercules |
| Operator: | Royal Saudi Air Force - RSAF |
| Registration: | 469 |
| C/n / msn: | 4754 |
| First flight: | 1977 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 92 / Occupants: 95 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 98 / Occupants: 101 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Rash Mishab (Saudi Arabia)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Jeddah-King Abdulaziz International Airport (JED/OEJN), Saudi Arabia |
| Rash Mishab (OERM), Saudi Arabia |
The Saudi Hercules flew 95 Senegalese soldiers back from pilgrimage to Mecca to their base at Rash Mishab (also referred to as Ras-al-Mishab). The soldiers were based in Saudi Arabia as part of the allied forces in the First Gulf War. Visibility was poor resulting from the clouds of smoke from the oil wells set ablaze in
southern Kuwait by Iraqi troops.
Sources:
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Jeddah-King Abdulaziz International Airport to Rash Mishab as the crow flies is 1182 km (739 miles).
Distance from Jeddah-King Abdulaziz International Airport to Rash Mishab as the crow flies is 1182 km (739 miles).
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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