| Date: | Sunday 26 August 2018 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Owner/operator: | Bush Air Safaris |
| Registration: | 5Y-BOP |
| MSN: | 208B0642 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1997 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Pieri Airstrip -
 South Sudan
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Pieri Airstrip |
A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan sustained substantial damage after colliding with a cow on takeoff from Pieri Airstrip in South Sudan.
The nose section was crushed and the nose landing gear collapsed.
The aircraft, 5Y-BOP, had been involved in a wildlife strike incident seven years earlier when it hit an antelope on landing.
Sources:
5Y-BOP incident 8 Sept. 2011; hit antelope on landing
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 September 2011 | 5Y-BOP | Safarilink Aviation | 0 | Musiara Airstrip |  |
min |
| Collision with an animal on the ground | ||||||
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