| Date: | Friday 27 December 2002 |
| Time: | 12:15 |
| Type: |  Let L-410UVP |
| Owner/operator: | Ocean Airlines |
| Registration: | 9XR-RB |
| MSN: | 810636 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Engine model: | Walter M-601D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 16 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Anjouan -
 Comoros
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Moroni (unknown airport) |
| Anjouan-Ouani Airport (AJN/FMCV) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft was holding 15 nm from the destination airport at a height of 2 500 ft AGL, due to bad weather at Anjouan. When conditions improved clearance was obtained for the final approach. The airplane was struck by lightning. A go-around was attempted, but the airplane lost the artificial horizons and gyro compasses as a result of the lightning strike. Control was lost and the airplane crashed.
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