ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 331245
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Date: | Wednesday 14 January 1970 |
Time: | 04:18 |
Type: | de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C |
Owner/operator: | United Arab Airlines - UAA |
Registration: | SU-ANI |
MSN: | 6475 |
Year of manufacture: | 1964 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 14 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Addis Ababa-Haile Selassie I International Airport (ADD) -
Ethiopia
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Khartoum-Civil Airport (KRT/HSSS) |
Destination airport: | Addis Ababa-Haile Selassie I International Airport (ADD/HAAB) |
Narrative:After a flight from Cairo and Khartoum, the aircraft was inbound at 04:14. On final approach the aircraft broke through clouds at approx. 150 feet, but was 200-300 feet to the right of runway 32. The Comet banked left, made some shallow turns and made a higher than normal landing flare half way down the runway. This caused the aircraft to stall; the left wing and pod fuel tank struck the runway and the Comet crashed.
CAUSE: Attempted landing from unfavorable position, brought about by the fact that the pilot had descended below weather minima before being able to establish visual ground contact.
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