Accident Fokker F-27 Friendship 500 5Y-SXP, Sunday 31 August 2014

Date:	Sunday 31 August 2014
Time:	19:45
Type:	Fokker F-27 Friendship 500
Owner/operator:	Safari Express Cargo
Registration:	5Y-SXP
MSN:	10681
Year of manufacture:	1985
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Dart 552-7R
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Kogatende - Tanzania
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	Mwanza Airport (MWZ/HTMW)
Destination airport:	Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO/HKJK)
Investigating agency:	AAID Kenya
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
A Fokker F-27 cargo plane, registered 5Y-SXP, was destroyed in an accident in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. All three occupants sustained fatal injuries.
The aircraft took off at 13:35 hrs local time (10:35 UTC) from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya for a charter flight to Buzwagi Gold Mine in Tanzania with a planned intermediate stop at Mwanza then back to Nairobi. It was carrying two pilots and a load master with four tons of explosives for mining.
At 19:26 hours the flight took off from Mwanza for an empty flight back to Nairobi. At 19:33 hours the crew contacted the Dar es
Salaam Area Control Centre and reported climbing through FL105 to FL170, estimating PARIN at 20:11 and Jomo Kenyatta 20:39.
While cruising at FL169 the airplane was observed to be losing height and speed irregularly while going down. It disappeared from the Nairobi radar after passing FL146 at a speed of 430 kts.
The burnt wreckage was found the following morning.

Accident investigation: