Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 07 APR 1994 |
| Type: | Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules |
| Operator: | Angola Air Charter |
| Registration: | D2-THC |
| C/n / msn: | 4679 |
| First flight: | 1976 |
| Engines: | 4 Allison 501-D22A |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Malange Airport (MEG) (Angola) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Malange Airport (MEG/FNMA), Angola |
The brakes were overheated while taxiing to another parking spot following landing. A fire broke out and spread.
Sources:
» Flight International 18-24.1.95
» Scramble 181
» Scramble 183
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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.
