ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 320532
Date: | Saturday 10 May 2014 |
Time: | 19:30 |
Type: | Fokker 100 |
Owner/operator: | IRS Airlines |
Registration: | 5N-SIK |
MSN: | 11286 |
Year of manufacture: | 1989 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Tay 650-15 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Ganla -
Niger
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Bratislava-Ivanka Airport (BTS/LZIB) |
Destination airport: | Kano-Aminu Kano International Airport (KAN/DNKN) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:An IRS Airlines Fokker F100, operating on a post C-check ferry flight from Bratislava sustained substantial damage during a forced landing in the Ganla area in Niger.
The two pilots onboard survived.
Preliminary information reported by Nigerian media say the crew lost radio contact with Kano after encountering a sand storm. A forced landing was carried out after the plane ran out of fuel. The airplane's right hand main landing gear and nose gear collapsed during the landing.
Sources:
Daily Post Nigeria Leadership Newspaper Images:
photo (c) Christian Bick; Karlsruhe/Baden Baden-Söllingen Airport (FKB); 01 May 2009
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