2002 Prestige Airlines Boeing 707 crash

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2002 Prestige Airlines Boeing 707 crash
N'Djamena Airport, N'Djamena, Chad
DestinationMaya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Passengers21
Crew9
Fatalities28
Injuries2
Survivors2

On 4 July 2002 a

Bangui Airport. 28 people on board were killed and two survived.[1] The flight was bound to Brazzaville, but the crew decided to divert to Bangui when the landing gear
had not retracted.

Background

The international flight was carrying passengers and a load of onions and garlic from Chad to the Central African Republic. There were 17 Chadian passengers on board.[2] The Boeing belonged to a small airline New Gomair, owned by local businessmen, but was chartered by Prestige Airlines at the time of the accident.[2]

Crash

On final approach to Bangui, the aircraft descended until it contacted the ground. The crash occurred in clear weather at about 11:15 a.m. in the Guitangola neighborhood, two miles short of the Bangui Airport's runway.[3][4] The aircraft exploded upon touchdown, scattering wreckage and reportedly causing the roof of an empty house to collapse.[3]

The two survivors were engineer Laurent Tabako and a woman from Chad, both were admitted to a hospital.

voice recorder were recovered and an investigation was launched by the government of the Central African Republic.[2]

References

  1. Aviation Safety Network
    . Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "'Pilot error may have caused CAR plane crash'". Independent Online. July 7, 2002. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  3. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Many dead as plane crashes in Central Africa". The Irish Times. Agence France-Presse. 2002-07-04. Retrieved 2020-08-22.

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