Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 15 APR 2001 |
| Type: | Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Operator: | Union Charter Trust |
| Registration: | ZS-OCZ |
| C/n / msn: | 208B-0617 |
| First flight: | 1997 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Tembo (Congo (Democratic Republic))
 |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Lost engine power and caught fire while trying to carry out an emergency landing in a field.
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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.
