ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47B-1-DL (DC-3) ET-AGM Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD)
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Date:Tuesday 18 March 1980
Type:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Douglas C-47B-1-DL (DC-3)
Operator:Ethiopian Airlines
Registration: ET-AGM
MSN: 20874
First flight: 1944
Total airframe hrs:26021
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C
Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage: Damaged beyond repair
Location:near Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD) (   Ethiopia)
Phase: Approach (APR)
Nature:Training
Departure airport:Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD/HAAB), Ethiopia
Destination airport:Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD/HAAB), Ethiopia
Narrative:
On base turn to runway 07, with one propeller feathered, the aircraft descended fast. Attempts to relit the engine failed, and the DC-3 struck the roof of a house and crashed in the compound of another house.

Sources:
» Bringing Africa thogether / Ethiopian Airlines, 1988


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