Accident description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 19 APR 2000 |
| Type: | Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Operating for: | Kivu Air Services |
| Leased from: | Gallovents Ten |
| Registration: | ZS-ONT |
| C/n / msn: | 208B-0220 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Bukavu (Congo (Democratic Republic))
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
The Cessna crashed in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park near Bukavu. Some reports say the pilot and three passengers died and that the airplane was flying for Kivu Air.
Sources:
» Central and Eastern Africa IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 16 (15 - 21 April 2000)
» Scramble 255
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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.
