Accidents and incidents Air Afrique

1 accidents , incidents

1.1 accidents involving fatalities
1.2 incidents involving fatalities
1.3 non-fatal hull-losses

accidents , incidents

according aviation safety network, air afrique experienced 7 accidents/incidents; 2 of them led fatalities.

accidents involving fatalities

1963-5-3: first hull-loss accident experienced company, deadliest one, occurred when douglas dc-6b, registration f-biao, operating international scheduled douala international airport–lagos-ikeja international airport flight, crashed mt. cameroon when flying @ low altitude on prohibited route. there 55 fatalities.

incidents involving fatalities

1987-7-24: mcdonnell douglas dc-10-30 operating flight 56, international scheduled brazzaville–rome–paris service hijacked while flying on milan shiite, lebanese, 21-year-old man named hussein ali mohammed hariri, member of party of god. there 148 passengers (64 of them french) , 15 crew members on board. hijacker demanded release of 2 of brothers imprisoned on terrorism charges in west germany, 1 of whom accused of hijacking twa flight 847 in 1985, , flown beirut. while refuelling @ geneva international airport, french passenger shot death hariri, sign of determination after demands not met. during moment of distraction, of passengers on board managed escape jetliner using rear doors; steward jumped on hariri shot , injured him. after standoff aircraft stormed swiss police , hijacker overpowered.

non-fatal hull-losses

1971-2-28: douglas c-54a-do, tail number tt-daa, operated freighter service, crashed ground ahead of runway on final approach fort archambault airport, chad, when pilot misinterpreted actual height of aircraft.




^ accident record air afrique . aviation safety network. 22 july 2011. retrieved 22 july 2011. 
^ asn aircraft accident douglas dc-6b f-biao mt. cameroon . aviation safety network. 10 march 2011. retrieved 10 march 2011. 
^ air afrique accident (pdf). flight international: 665. 9 may 1963. retrieved 1 may 2011. air afrique dc-6 crashed minutes after taking off douala lagos on may 4. of 48 passengers , 7 crew on board, there hopes 2 passengers might have survived. 
^ air afrique hijacking description @ aviation safety network. retrieved on 22 july 2011.
^ cite error: named reference swiss give life term lebanese man in fatal hijacking invoked never defined (see page).
^ cite error: named reference swiss fear terrorism after hijack capture invoked never defined (see page).
^ cite error: named reference lebanese hijacker captured after killing passenger invoked never defined (see page).
^ accident description tt-daa @ aviation safety network. retrieved on 23 july 2011.