| Date: | Saturday 12 February 2000 |
| Time: | 00:56 |
| Type: |  Airbus A300B4-203 |
| Owner/operator: | Air Afrique |
| Registration: | TU-TAT |
| MSN: | 282 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 38400 hours |
| Cycles: | 19600 flights |
| Engine model: | General Electric CF6-50C2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 182 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR) -
 Senegal
|
| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR/GOOY) |
| Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG/LFPG) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Taxiing to the runway for a departure to Paris, the left main gear unsafe alarm sounded. The crew elected to return to the parking area. While taxiing back, the left main gear retracted, causing the no. 1 engine to strike the ground. A fire broke out in the vicinity of this engine and the aircraft was quickly evacuated.
PROBABLE CAUSE: A crossing of the flexible tubing of the hydraulic connection controlling the locking of the left gear.
Sources:
ICAO Adrep Summary 2/00 (#2)
Tommy Maurer
Location
Images:
photo (c) Jan Mogren; Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR); 12 February 2000
photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG); 31 May 1998
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