Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 31 JAN 1999 |
| Type: |  Boeing 727-2D6 |
| Operator: | Air Algérie |
| Registration: | 7T-VEH |
| C/n / msn: | 20955/1075 |
| First flight: | 1974-09-27 (24 years 4 months) |
| Engines: | 3 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 92 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 99 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Constantine-Ain el Bey Airport (CZL) (Algeria) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Paris (unknown airport), France |
| Constantine-Ain el Bey Airport (CZL/DABC), Algeria |
Ran off runway and struck a mount of snow; nosegear collapsed. The aircraft is reportedly damaged beyond repair and stored at Algiers (probably ferried there??).
Sources:
» Flight International 25-31.01.2000 (p.52)
» ICAO Adrep
» Jetstream
» Tommy Maurer
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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.
