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| Date: | Sunday 3 June 2007 |
| Time: | 20:30 LT |
| Type: |  Mil Mi-8T |
| Owner/operator: | Paramount Airlines |
| Registration: | 9L-LBT |
| MSN: | 99250969 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1992 |
| Engine model: | Klimov TV2-117 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 22 / Occupants: 23 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Freetown-Lungi (FNA) -
 Sierra Leone
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Freetown-Mammy Yoko Heliport (JMY) |
| Freetown-Lungi International Airport (FNA/GFLL) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Crashed and burned at Lungi Airport attempting to land. Only the co-pilot of the three ukrainian crew members survived seriously injured. The twenty passengers, including 14 Togolese citizen (Youth and Sports Minister Richard Olivier Attipoé, 50) were killed.
PROBABLY CAUSE(S): overload...fatigue failure...one of the five main rotor blades fell off whilst hovering at 2-4m altitude.
Sources:
1. http://www.scramble.nl/soviet-database?view=default
2. http://www.airliners.net/photo/Paramount-Airlines/Mil-Mi-8T/1334565/L
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6715937.stm
4. http://en.people.cn/90001/90777/6227729.html
5. http://www.togoforum.com/Ap/ap2007/0603072.htm
6. http://news.sl/drwebsite/exec/view.cgi?archive=4&num=5662
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-May-2008 11:38 | abed | Added |
| 29-May-2008 11:41 | harro | Updated |
| 05-Jul-2008 11:00 | harro | Updated |
| 20-Feb-2011 04:58 | TB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Feb-2011 05:17 | TB | Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Feb-2011 05:20 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 25-Feb-2011 12:02 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
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