Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 28 APR 2008 |
| Time: | 12:40 |
| Type: | Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Operator: | AIM Air |
| Registration: | 5Y-SPK |
| C/n / msn: | 208B-0243 |
| First flight: | 1990 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | Doro (South Sudan) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Int'l Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Nairobi-Wilson Airport (WIL/HKNW), Kenya |
Plane landed at a medical mission station in Sudan to pick up four mission personnel. On takeoff the aircraft lifted off from a wet and somewhat muddy airstrip, but was not able to safely clear the obstacles at the end of the runway. The left wing of the plane struck the trunk of a tree and the plane went into a ditch and flipped onto its back.
Sources:
» AIM International - USA news release
» Scramble 358
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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.
