| Date: | Sunday 17 July 1994 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40D |
| Owner/operator: | Sankuru Air Service, lsf Impulse-Aero |
| Registration: | RA-87256 |
| MSN: | 9311326 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1973 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 27402 hours |
| Cycles: | 22752 flights |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Boma Airport (BOA) -
 Congo (Democratic Republic)
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Kinshasa (unknown airport) |
| Boma Airport (BOA/FZAJ) |
The aircraft landed far down Boma's 3609 feet long runway 21, overran and crashed into a ravine. It appeared that the pilots operated the normal and emergency brake systems simultaneously, which the flight manual forbids, and the aircraft was left with no brakes at all. The airplane had been leased from
Impulse-Aero.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Scramble 184
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