Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2018
| Status: | |
| Date: | Sunday 28 December 2014 |
| Time: | ca 03:00 |
| Type: |  Antonov 26 |
| Operator: | Air Sirin |
| Registration: | 4L-AFS |
| C/n / msn: | 8608 |
| First flight: | 1979 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | 25 km (15.6 mls) from Uvira ( Congo (Democratic Republic))
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Bujumbura International Airport (BJM/HBBA), Burundi |
| Pointe Noire Airport (PNR/FCPP), Congo | |
| Flightnumber: | AGS902 |
An Antonov cargo plane is said to have impacted a forested mountainside near Uvira, D.R. Congo, killing all six crew members.
The airplane landed at Entebbe, Uganda at 05:23 local time on December 27 for a technical stop. The airplane departed at 11:09 for Bujumbura, Burundi under flight number AGS902. After midnight on December 28 the Antonov departed Bujumbura and headed west, bound for to Pointe Noire, Congo. It impacted a mountainside just across the border in D.R. Congo.
Formally 4L-AFS was deregistered from the Georgian aircraft register in 2014.
Sources:
» Radio Okapi» New Vision
Photos
Ended up as 4L-AFS in 2013
Ended up as 4L-AFS in 2013
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Bujumbura International Airport to Pointe Noire Airport as the crow flies is 1932 km (1207 miles).
Accident location: Global; accuracy within tens or hundreds of kilometers.
Distance from Bujumbura International Airport to Pointe Noire Airport as the crow flies is 1932 km (1207 miles).
Accident location: Global; accuracy within tens or hundreds of kilometers.
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
