Date: | Tuesday 6 April 1971 |
Time: | 16:35 |
Type: | Douglas R4D-6 (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Kenya Department of Civil Aviation |
Registration: | 5Y-DCA |
MSN: | 26733/15288 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Nairobi International Airport (NBO) -
Kenya
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Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | Nairobi International Airport (NBO/HKNA) |
Destination airport: | Nairobi International Airport (NBO/HKNA) |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:Following a flight handling test and landing the pilots exchanged positions. The aircraft was being taxied back along a taxiway for a further take-off when it swung off the taxiway into a storm drain.
Probable cause: the aircraft was, during a taxiing operation, subjected to a crosswind factor which caused the aircraft to swing, and before corrective action was effected the aircraft ran into a storm drain.
Sources:
Kenya Gazette 23 Apr 1971
ICAO Adrep
Images:
![](/photos/wiki/1971/19710406_DC3_5Y-DCA_13154.jpg)
photo (c) Uwe Timm, via Ralf P. Kokoschka; Malindi Airport (MYD/HKML); July 1967
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