ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 322924
Date: | Friday 27 December 2002 |
Time: | 12:15 |
Type: | Let L-410UVP |
Owner/operator: | Ocean Airlines |
Registration: | 9XR-RB |
MSN: | 810636 |
Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
Engine model: | Walter M-601D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 16 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Anjouan -
Comoros
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Moroni (unknown airport) |
Destination airport: | Anjouan-Ouani Airport (AJN/FMCV) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The aircraft was holding 15 nm from the destination airport at a height of 2 500 ft AGL, due to bad weather at Anjouan. When conditions improved clearance was obtained for the final approach. The airplane was struck by lightning. A go-around was attempted, but the airplane lost the artificial horizons and gyro compasses as a result of the lightning strike. Control was lost and the airplane crashed.
Sources:
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