Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
25OCT2006 at 0417LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Services & Transports Aériens
Registration
 
5R-MGV
Location
 
Toliara
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Toliara - Antananarivo
 
Construction number
 
425-0032
Year of manufacture
 
1981
     
Crew on board
 
2
Pax on board
 
4
Crew fatalities
 
2
Pax fatalities
 
4
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
6

Circumstances
   
 
The aircraft was performing a special flight from Toliara to the capital city Antananarivo with 4 pax and a crew of two on behalf of the company Magrama (Marbres & Granites de Madagascar). Two minutes after takeoff, the aircraft crashed and burst into flames 1,500 metres from the runway end. All 6 occupants were killed. Among them, 4 Italians and 2 Madagascar citizens. It seems that one of the engine exploded after takeoff.
   


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