Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
15APR2008 at 1430LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
9Q-CHN
Location
 
Goma
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Goma - Kisangani
 
Construction number
 
860/47731
Year of manufacture
 
1977
     
Crew on board
 
8
Pax on board
 
86
Crew fatalities
 
0
Pax fatalities
 
3
Other fatalities
 
37
Total fatalities
 
40

Circumstances
   
 
While taking off from runway 18, apparently after an engine malfunction due to water ingestion, the aircraft came down in Birere quarter and burst into flames. 3 people on board were killed as 37 others on ground.
   


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