Date: | Thursday 17 May 2007 |
Time: | 11:00 |
Type: | Let L-410UVP |
Owner/operator: | SAFE Air Company |
Registration: | TN-AHE |
MSN: | 851335 |
Year of manufacture: | 1985 |
Engine model: | Walter M-601D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Walikale -
Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Walikale Airstrip |
Destination airport: | Goma Airport (GOM/FZNA) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:The Let 410 was used to transport minerals from Walikale to Goma. All flight to Walikale use a 700 m long road located near Kilambo as an airstrip. Preliminary reports indicated that an engine caught fire three minutes after takeoff. The airplane tried to return to the airstrip, but crashed in a forest.
Sources:
Trois morts dans l'accident d'un avion petit porteur dans l'est de la RDC (AFP, 17-5-2007)
Walikale : crash dun avion, 3 morts (Radio Okapi, 17-5-2007)
Final report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pursuant to Security Council resolution 1698 (2006), report nr. S/2007/423
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; unknown; June 1995
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