Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
30JUN2009 at 0150LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
7O-ADJ
Location
 
Off Moroni
   
Flight number
  IY626
Schedule
 
Sanaa - Moroni
 
Construction number
 
535
Year of manufacture
 
1990
     
Crew on board
 
11
Pax on board
 
142
Crew fatalities
 
11
Pax fatalities
 
141
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
152

Circumstances
   
 
On approach to Moroni by night, it seems that the crew performed a go around and a turn over the airport. On return base leg, the aircraft stalled and crashed in the sea. Only one young girl survived the crash while all 152 other occupants were killed.
   


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