| Date: | Friday 14 April 2000 |
| Time: | 11:30 |
| Type: |  Canadair CL-44D4-2 |
| Owner/operator: | Air Force of the D.R. Congo, lsf Africargo Airlines |
| Registration: | 3C-ZPO |
| MSN: | 24 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Tyne 515-10 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Other |
| Location: | Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH) -
 Congo (Democratic Republic)
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A major fire erupted in a warehouse on the Kinshasa Airport and spread to a cargo of ammunition, causing several explosions. Some 109 people on the ground are said to have been killed. Several aircraft were damaged or destroyed in the fire. They included a Congo Army Caravelle (9Q-CZZ), a Government of Congo Boeing 707 (9Q-CGC), two Canadair CL-44 planes (3C-ZPO and TN-235) and an Antonov 28 (9Q-CZL).
Sources:
Scramble 253
Terry Denham
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 27 February 1962 | N454T | Flying Tiger Line | 0 | Burbank, California |  |
sub |
| 1 January 1984 | N104BB | Blue Bell, Inc. | 0 | East Boston, MA | |
sub |
| 26 September 1989 | N104BB | Aircraft Marketing Inc., | 0 | Greensboro, NC | |
non |
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Sharjah Airport (SHJ); November 1999
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