ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324597
Date: | Sunday 22 October 1995 |
Time: | 09:50 |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
Owner/operator: | Ethiopian Airlines |
Registration: | ET-AIO |
MSN: | 818 |
Year of manufacture: | 1985 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 20 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Bole -
Ethiopia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Dessie-Combolcha Airport (DSE/HADC) |
Destination airport: | Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD/HAAB) |
Narrative:When descending into Addis Ababa, Flight ET 173 from Dessie collided with a large bird (white backed vulture - 6 kg). The windshields failed and the Twin Otter made an emergency descend into Bole. When making forced landing 300 m South of the runway, the aircraft fell into a depression and ground looped.
Sources:
Scramble 201(48)
Images:
photo (c) Raimund Stehmann; Lalibela Airport (LLI); October 1995
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