ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 73737
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| Date: | Sunday 19 February 1978 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Cessna 310 Skyknight |
| Owner/operator: | ENEAM National Aeronautical School |
| Registration: | 5R-MTK |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Antsohihy region -
 Madagascar
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Arivonimamo |
| Nossi Be | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Yves Gendron the aircraft captain was a flying instructor at ENEAM in Arivonimamo a pilot training school sponsored by CIDA the Canadian International Development Agency and the Malagasy government. He and a Canadian avionics technician Jack Prince who was at ENEAM to help us set up our avionics lab were to drop off two students near Antsohiy for a weekend home. It was dark, the little airstrip had no lighting or navaids so they abandoned the attempt and set course for Nossi Be their flight planned destination an island just off the northwest coast. They unfortunately ran into severe weather caused by the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone in that area, became lost, ran out of fuel and crashed.
Sources:
Edward McKeogh
The Straits Times 22 February 1978, p2
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Apr-2010 07:07 | TB | Added |
| 01-Apr-2010 08:45 | TB | Updated [Date, Operator] |
| 22-Jul-2010 09:00 | TB | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Nature, Narrative] |
| 01-Apr-2013 17:21 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 02-Jul-2014 18:42 | Ed McKeogh | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 16-Aug-2017 16:33 | Edward McKeogh | Updated [Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Oct-2017 19:23 | TB | Updated [Operator] |
| 13-Mar-2019 18:48 | TB | Updated [Date, Source, Narrative] |
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