| Date: | Monday 4 October 1976 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-7CF |
| Owner/operator: | Emirates Air Transport |
| Registration: | TZ-ARC |
| MSN: | 45467/970 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 140 km NNE of Nairobi -
 Kenya
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | |
| Nairobi (unknown airport) |
The aircraft struck the cloud-covered Mount Kenya, while descending from FL150.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Premature descent.
Sources:
Location
Images:
photo (c) AeroTransport Data Bank
photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Miami International Airport, FL (MIA); 27 August 1973
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