ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 321731
| Date: | Monday 28 April 2008 |
| Time: | 12:40 |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Owner/operator: | AIM Air |
| Registration: | 5Y-SPK |
| MSN: | 208B0243 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Doro Airstrip -
 South Sudan
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Doro Airstrip |
| Nairobi-Wilson Airport (WIL/HKNW) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Plane landed at a medical mission station in Sudan to pick up four mission personnel. On takeoff the aircraft lifted off from a wet and somewhat muddy airstrip, but was not able to safely clear the obstacles at the end of the runway. The left wing of the plane struck the trunk of a tree and the plane went into a ditch and flipped onto its back.
Sources:
AIM International - USA news release
Scramble 358
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