Date: | Sunday 13 December 1992 |
Time: | |
Type: | Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M |
Owner/operator: | Scibe Airlift Cargo Zaire |
Registration: | 9Q-CBH |
MSN: | 10649 |
Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 37 / Occupants: 37 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 40 km SW of Goma Airport (GOM) -
Congo (Democratic Republic)
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Kindu Airport (KND/FZOA) |
Destination airport: | Goma Airport (GOM/FZNA) |
Narrative:The Fokker F-27 Friendship struck a high ground while on preparing for an approach to runway 36 at Goma Airport. The flight crew descended prematurely and impacted terrain at 8800 feet near the Nkubi intersection, at a point where the approach procedure demanded a passage at FL150.
Sources:
NRC Handelsblad
World Aircraft Accident Summary - CAP 479 / Airclaims
Location
Images:
![](/photos/wiki/1992/19921213_F27_9Q-CBH_15567.jpg)
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Woensdrecht Airport (WOE); April 1985
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