ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323529
Date: | Friday 14 April 2000 |
Time: | 11:30 |
Type: | Canadair CL-44D4-2 |
Owner/operator: | Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Registration: | TN-235 |
MSN: | 37 |
Year of manufacture: | 1964 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Tyne 515 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | OT |
Location: | Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH) -
Congo (Democratic Republic)
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | - |
Departure airport: | - |
Destination airport: | - |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:A major fire erupted in a warehouse on the Kinshasa Airport and spread to a cargo of ammunition, causing several explosions. Some 109 people on the ground are said to have been killed. Several aircraft were damaged or destroyed in the fire. They included a Congo Army Caravelle (9Q-CZZ), a Government of Congo Boeing 707 (9Q-CGC), two Canadair CL-44 planes (3C-ZPO and TN-235) and an Antonov 28 (9Q-CZL).
Sources:
Scramble 253
Terry Denham
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Lanseria Airport (HLA); June 1997
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