Date:	Thursday 6 October 1960
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide
Owner/operator:	Air Brousse
Registration:	OO-CJT
MSN:	6925
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Molegbe, City of Gbadolite, Nord-Ubangi province -   Congo (Democratic Republic)
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	N'dolo Airport, Léopoldville, Congo (NLO/FZAB)
Destination airport:	Gbadolite Airport, Gbadolite, Nord-Ubangi (BDT/FZFD)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
On approach to Gbadolite Airport, a fuel exhaustion forced the pilot to attempt an emergency landing. The twin engine aircraft crash landed in Molegbe, about 7 km west of the airport and came to rest. All six occupants (pilot and five passengers) were rescued while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Molegbe is a commune in the city of Gbadolite, the provincial capital of Nord-Ubangi province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its inhabitants speak ngbandi. Gbadolite Airport (French: Aéroport de Gbadolite) (IATA: BDT, ICAO: FZFD) is an airport serving Gbadolite, the capital of the Nord-Ubangi Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The airport is at the village of Moanda, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southwest of Gbadolite

1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
2. https://www.dehavilland.co.za/DH89_Dragon_Rapide.html
3. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-molegbe
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VP-Y.html
5. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/RL943.html
6. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/ZS-BZV.html
7. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/OO-CJT.html
8. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/9O-CJT.html
9. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_2016.pdf p.80
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Brousse
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molegbe
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbadolite_Airport

c/no. 6925: Taken on charge by the RAF as RL943 against Contract No.6/Acft/2580/C2a at DeHavilland Witney, Oxfordshire 30.10.45. C of A 7513 issued 20.2.46 (to DeHavilland Aircraft of South Africa). Sold 17.3.46 to Southern Rhodesia. Re-registered as VP-YDE 1.4.46 to Southern Rhodesia Air Services Ltd. Re-registered 6.46 to
Central African Airways. Registration cancelled 24.7.49 as \"sold to South Africa\". Re-registered ZS-BZV 15.8.49 to Commercial Air Services Ltd, t/a Comair, Johannesburg. Re-registered 1951 to Drakensberg Air Services (Pty) Ltd, Ladysmith. Badly damaged when parked outdoors in tornado at Ladysmith, Kwazulu-Natal 10.1.55; repaired.

Registration ZS-BZV cancelled 26.10.56 as \"sold in Belgian Congo\". Re-registered OO-CJT [C of R 1110/C268] 27.10.56 to Air Brousse Sprl, Leopoldville. Re-registered 9O-CJT in 1961, but probably not taken up.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
27-Dec-2011 10:08	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
27-Dec-2011 10:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Mar-2019 00:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Country, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Mar-2019 00:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
10-Jul-2024 19:13	TB	Updated [Time, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
18-Mar-2025 09:05	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category, ]
18-Mar-2025 09:06	ASN	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, ]