ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 320454
Date: | Sunday 31 August 2014 |
Time: | 19:45 |
Type: | Fokker F-27 Friendship 500 |
Owner/operator: | Safari Express Cargo |
Registration: | 5Y-SXP |
MSN: | 10681 |
Year of manufacture: | 1985 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 552-7R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Kogatende -
Tanzania
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Mwanza Airport (MWZ/HTMW) |
Destination airport: | Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO/HKJK) |
Investigating agency: | AAID Kenya |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:A Fokker F-27 cargo plane, registered 5Y-SXP, was destroyed in an accident in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. All three occupants sustained fatal injuries.
The aircraft took off at 13:35 hrs local time (10:35 UTC) from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya for a charter flight to Buzwagi Gold Mine in Tanzania with a planned intermediate stop at Mwanza then back to Nairobi. It was carrying two pilots and a load master with four tons of explosives for mining.
At 19:26 hours the flight took off from Mwanza for an empty flight back to Nairobi. At 19:33 hours the crew contacted the Dar es
Salaam Area Control Centre and reported climbing through FL105 to FL170, estimating PARIN at 20:11 and Jomo Kenyatta 20:39.
While cruising at FL169 the airplane was observed to be losing height and speed irregularly while going down. It disappeared from the Nairobi radar after passing FL146 at a speed of 430 kts.
The burnt wreckage was found the following morning.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | AAID Kenya |
Report number: | Preliminary report |
Status: | Preliminary report |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Preliminary report |
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Sources:
Standard Digital
History of this aircraft
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Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Liège-Bierset Airport (LGG/EBLG); October 1998
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