ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325021
| Date: | Monday 14 March 1994 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed AC-130H Spectre |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 69-6576 |
| MSN: | 4351 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1969 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Malindi -
 Kenya
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Mombasa-Moi International Airport (MBA/HKMO) |
| Mogadishu International Airport (MGQ/HCMM) |
The AC-130H Hercules gunship departed Mombasa (MBA) for a mission to Mogadishu (MGQ) in support of Operation Continue Hope. Reportedly a 105 mm shell exploded in a gun barrell. The airplane subsequently crashed into the sea about 200 yards offshore in 10-15 feet of water.
Sources:
Toll now 7 in U.S. gunship crash
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Hurlburt Field, FL; March 1989
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