Accident description
Last updated: 26 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 14 FEB 2011 |
| Time: | ca 16:15 |
| Type: | Let L-410UVP |
| Operator: | African Air Services Commuter |
| Registration: | 9Q-CIF |
| C/n / msn: | 830922 |
| First flight: | 1983 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Mont Biega (Congo (Democratic Republic))
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Bukavu-Kavumu Airport (BKY/FZMA), Congo (Democratic Republic) |
| Lusenge Airfield, Congo (Democratic Republic) |
A Let 410 cargo plane, registration 9Q-CIF, was damaged beyond repair in an accident at Mont Biega, D.R. Congo. Both crew members were killed.
The airplane operated on a cargo flight from Bukavu-Kavumu Airport (BKY) to Lusenge.
Sources:
» Radio Okapi
» Soviet Transports
Photos
The airplane was sold as TN-AHF in July 2004 and moved to D.R. Congo as 9Q-CIF about 2010
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.
