Accident
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Statuts: | Préliminaire |
| Date: | 12 NOV 2009 |
| Heure: | ca 12:50 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-100ER |
| Opérant pour: | Rwandair Express |
| Loué à : | JetLink Express |
| Immatriculation: | 5Y-JLD |
| Numéro de série: | 7197 |
| Année de Fabrication: | 1997 |
| Moteurs: | 2 General Electric CF34-3A1 |
| Equipage: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 5 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 1 / à bord: 10 |
| Total: | victimes: 1 / à bord: 15 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Substantiels |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | Kigali Airport (KGL) (Rwanda)
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| Phase de vol: | Au roulage (TXI) |
| Nature: | Transport de Passagers Intern. |
| Aéroport de départ: | Kigali Airport (KGL/HRYR), Rwanda |
| Entebbe Airport (EBB/HUEN), Ouganda | |
| Numéro de vol: | 205 |
A Canadair CRJ-100ER RegionalJet passenger plane, 5Y-JLD, operated by JetLink Express on behalf of Rwandair, was substantially damaged when it struck an airport building at Kigali Airport (KGL), Rwanda. One passenger was killed. The airplane operated on a scheduled international flight to Entebbe Airport (EBB), Uganda.
Two minutes after take-off, the pilot requested to return because of a technical problem with the engine's thrust lever (throttle). The airplane landed safely and taxied back to the apron. However as the ground crew went to put on the main gear wheel chocks, the aircraft suddenly accelerated, turned right knocking over blast fences until it hit the eastern wall of the VIP building after covering a distance of about 500 meters. After hitting the wall, the flight attendants aboard the aircraft initiated an evacuation sequence and the passengers escaped through the over-wing emergency door and walked away from the aircraft to the terminal building.
The nose gear collapsed and the nose was burried inside the building up to and including the left hand forwar passenger door.
Weather reported about the time of the accident (12:30 local, 10:30 UTC):
HRYR 121030Z VRB03KT 9999 BKN030 24/18 Q1018 NOSIG= [Wind variable at 3 knots; unlimited visibility; Broken clouds at 3000 feet; temperature 24 degrees C, dew point 18 degrees C; 1018 MB]
Sources:
» Rwandair media release
» Jetlink flight crashes in Kigali (Update 2) (The Independent - Uganda, 12-11-2009)
» Pilot trapped in crashed plane saved from wreckage (RNA, 12-11-2009)
Photos
F-GPTF operating for Air Littoral; it was withdrawn from use in 2004 and sold as 5Y-JLD in 2007
Video/animation
Aircraft history
| date | registration | operator | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 NOV 1997 | F-GPTF | Air Littoral | delivered |
| 18 NOV 2000 | F-GPTF | Lufthansa CityLine | leased |
| 10 DEC 2000 | F-GPTF | Air Littoral | returned |
| 15 OCT 2002 | F-GPTF | Brit Air | leased |
| 30 JUN 2003 | F-GPTF | Air Littoral | returned |
| 13 FEB 2004 | F-GPTF | Air Littoral | withdrawn from use and stored at Calgary International Airport, AB (YYC), Canada |
| FEB 2008 | 5Y-JLD | JetLink Express | registered |
| 5Y-JLD | Rwandair Express | bought |
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposé destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Kigali Airport et Entebbe Airport est de 338 km (212 miles).
La distance entre Kigali Airport et Entebbe Airport est de 338 km (212 miles).
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.
