ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323107
| Date: | Sunday 17 February 2002 |
| Time: | 18:00 |
| Type: |  Canadair CL-44D4 |
| Owner/operator: | Skymaster Freight Services |
| Registration: | 9Q-CTS |
| MSN: | 25 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Tyne 515-10 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 23 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Mbuji-Mayi -
 Congo (Democratic Republic)
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Mbuji-Mayi Airport (MJM/FZWA) |
| Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH/FZAA) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
An uncontained engine fire erupted from engine no.1, following which the aircraft lost height. Both fire bottles were fired on the engine, but with no success. Struggling to control the aircraft with bank angles of around 85 degrees, the crew tried to extend the flaps to 45 degrees. The rate of descent reduced to 700 feet/min, but an asymmetric flap condition caused a increase in the rate of descent to 1500 feet/min with bank angles up to 110 degrees at a speed of 98 knots. The captain then pulled the power off and performed a hard landing in a jungle clearing.
Sources:
Peter van Leeuwen
Yahoo Propliner Group
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Greensboro/High Point-Piedmont Triad International Airport, NC (GSO); July 1991
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