ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325713
| Date: | Tuesday 10 September 1991 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M |
| Owner/operator: | Scibe Airlift Cargo Zaire |
| Registration: | 9Q-CBE |
| MSN: | 10655 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | near Kigali -
 Rwanda
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Kigali Airport (KGL/HRYR) |
| Goma Airport (GOM/FZNA) |
While en route from Kigali, the F-27 was hit by a missile, reportedly fired from the ground by Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels. One passenger was injured.
A safe landing was made at Goma. Scibe Airlift then withdrew the plane from service and stored it at Goma.
Sources:
Airlines 1992
Shooting down the truth about Rwanda / Barrie Collins, 16 April 2012
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Farnborough Airport (FAB); September 1984
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