Date: | Wednesday 25 July 1990 |
Time: | 11:16 |
Type: | Boeing 707-379C |
Owner/operator: | Ethiopian Airlines |
Registration: | ET-ACQ |
MSN: | 19820/709 |
Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD) -
Ethiopia
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD/HAAB) |
Destination airport: | Asmara International Airport (ASM/HAAY) |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:The Boeing aborted the runway 07 takeoff when bangs were heard followed by a momentary N1 dip of the no. 2 and 3 engines. The takeoff was aborted below V1 but the 707 overran the runway and impacted lower ground, breaking up. A flock of pigeons had collided with the plane.
Sources:
Fatalities and Destroyed Civil Aircraft Due To Bird Strikes 1912-2002 / John Thorpe (International Bird Strike Committee ISBC26/WP-SA1)
ICAO Adrep Summary 3/94 (#11)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
11 March 1969 |
ET-ACQ |
Ethiopian Airlines |
0 |
Frankfurt International Airport (FRA) |
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Location
Images:
![](/photos/wiki/1990/19900725_B703_ET-ACQ_15261.jpg)
photo (c) Raimund Stehmann; Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD); August 1993
![](/photos/wiki/1990/19900725_B703_ET-ACQ_15262.jpg)
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport (AMS); March 1990
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