ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324012
| Date: | Tuesday 10 March 1998 |
| Time: | 16:31 |
| Type: |  Boeing 707-336C |
| Owner/operator: | Air Memphis |
| Registration: | SU-PBA |
| MSN: | 19843/735 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 60171 hours |
| Cycles: | 17417 flights |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B (HK) |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mombasa-Moi International Airport (MBA) -
 Kenya
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Mombasa-Moi International Airport (MBA/HKMO) |
| Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) |
The Boeing 707, carrying a consignment of (34 tons) fish from Mwanza to Cairo via Mombasa took off from Mombasa Moi Airport at 16:31. The plane struck approach lights following takeoff from runway 03. It then struck a hilly mound, rolled and crashed into the ground. The 707 disintegrated and caught fire.
Runway 03 at Mombasa is 10,991ft. long but at the time of the accident the first 2,600ft. of the runway was not available.
Sources:
The Nation
Reuters
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Oostende Airport (OST); February 1998
photo (c) Javier Rodríguez; Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD); 10 September 1996
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