Date: | Sunday 28 December 2014 |
Time: | 03:00 |
Type: | Antonov An-26 |
Owner/operator: | AG Air |
Registration: | 4L-AFS |
MSN: | 8608 |
Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-24 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 26 km S of Uvira -
Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Bujumbura International Airport (BJM/HBBA) |
Destination airport: | Pointe-Noire Airport (PNR/FCPP) |
Narrative:An Antonov cargo plane is said to have impacted a forested mountainside near Uvira, D.R. Congo, killing all six crew members.
The airplane landed at Entebbe, Uganda at 05:23 local time on December 27 for a technical stop. The airplane departed at 11:09 for Bujumbura, Burundi under flight number AGS902. After midnight on December 28 the Antonov departed Bujumbura and headed west, bound for to Pointe Noire, Congo. It impacted a mountainside just across the border in D.R. Congo.
Formally 4L-AFS was deregistered from the Georgian aircraft register in 2014.
Sources:
Radio Okapi New Vision
Statistics
- 23rd worst accident in 2014
- 115th hull-loss accident of this type (Antonov An-26)
- 59th fatal accident of this type (Antonov An-26)
- 47th worst accident of this aircraft type (Antonov An-26)
- 40th worst accident of this aircraft type (Antonov An-26) at the time
- 49th worst accident in Congo (Democratic Republic)
- 42nd worst accident in Congo (Democratic Republic) at the time
Location
Images:
photo (c) Anon.; Uvira; December 2014
photo (c) Felix Goetting; Yakutsk Airport (YKS/UEEE); 08 July 1994
photo (c) Vadym Dziadok; Johor Bharu-Sultan Ismail International Airport (JHB/WMKJ); 06 September 2008
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