Air accident involving a Prestige Airlines Boeing 707
| Air accident involving a Prestige Airlines Boeing 707 | |
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 The aircraft that had an accident on 9XR-IS when it was still in service with Liberia World Airlines |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | probably lack of fuel due to pilot error |
| place | Guitangola, near Bangui Airport , Central African Republic
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| date | 4th July 2002 |
| Fatalities | 28 |
| Survivors | 2 |
| Injured | 2 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Boeing 707-123B
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| operator |
 New Gomair for Prestige Airlines
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| Mark |
9XR-IS
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| Departure airport |
N'Djamena Airport , Chad
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| Stopover |
Bangui Airport , Central African Republic (unscheduled)
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| Destination airport |
Maya-Maya Airport , Republic of the Congo
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| Passengers | 21st |
| crew | 9 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The air accident of a Boeing 707 of the Prestige Airlines occurred on July 4, 2002. A cargo plane of the type Boeing 707-123B the Rwandan New Gomair that a mixed cargo and passenger flights on behalf of the Prestige Airlines from the Republic of Congo from the airport N'Djamena in Chad to the Maya-Maya airport in the Republic of the Congo, crashed during an emergency landing near Bangui in the Central African Republic . 28 of the 30 people on board were killed in the accident.
plane
The aircraft used on the flight was a Boeing 707-123B. It was the 593rd Boeing 707 ever built with the factory number 19335. The machine was delivered to its first owner American Airlines on June 20, 1967 with the aircraft registration N7585A . The machine was sold on April 2, 1981 to the Denver Ports of Call airline , where it was initially operated with the same aircraft registration and from July 1982 as the N703PC . Between 1985 and 1988 the airline was renamed Skyworld Airlines , so that the machine bore the company's logo before it was finally reverted to the old name. In October 1989 Omega Air Inc., a company specializing in aircraft leasing and the sale of used parts for Boeing 707 aircraft, took over the machine. The company, which later became part of Omega Aerial Refueling Services , registered the aircraft with the new aircraft registration number N703PC and then leased it to Guyana Airlines 2000 on May 11, 1990 . On August 7, 1990, the aircraft went back to Omega Air and received the new aircraft registration EL-AKA (country of registration Liberia ) before it was leased to Jet Alsace from October 6 of the same year and to Air Gambia from December 11 of the same year . On April 11, 1991 the machine with the aircraft registration YN-CDE was leased to Aeronica from Nicaragua and from June 15, 1992 again to Guyana Airways 2000, where it was this time in service with the aircraft registration C5-GOB (country of approval Gambia ) . On May 1, 1994, the machine was returned to Omega Air as HR-AMG (approval country Honduras ) and from October 21, 1994 it was rented to the Slovakian Slovtrans Air , where it was in operation as OM-WFA . The plane was returned to Omega Air on June 29, 1995 and was finally transferred to Transair Cargo . There it was in operation from August 5, 1995 as 9Q-CJT (country of approval Democratic Republic of the Congo ), from June 10, 1996 as EL-WAM and from June 2, 1998 as 3D-ADK (country of approval Swaziland ). The New Gomair from Rwanda took over the machine in July 2002 and registered it with the aircraft registration 9XR-IS . The four-engine long-range - narrow-body aircraft was equipped with four turbine jet engines of the type -1-MC6 JT3D Pratt & Whitney facilities.
Flight history
The aircraft was to be used for a mixed cargo and passenger flight from N'Djamena in Chad to Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo . The flight was carried out by New Gomair on behalf of Prestige Airlines. The load consisted of a large quantity of onions and garlic . There were 21 passengers and 9 crew members on board the machine. Of the passengers, 17 came from Chad.
the accident
After the start in N'Djamena, the undercarriage of the machine could not be retracted. Because of this, the crew decided to return to Bangui. On the final approach, the machine sank until it touched the ground, was thrown again into the air and finally broke up in Guitangola, a suburb of Bangui. After the impact, the plane exploded. The roof of an empty house collapsed due to flying debris. The scene of the accident was 3 kilometers from the Bangui runway. Of the 30 occupants of the machine, 28 were killed. Only the flight engineer Laurent Tabako and a passenger from Chad survived.
root cause
The accident occurred in clear weather. According to the surviving flight engineer Tabako, the pilots had drained kerosene for the emergency landing in Bangui. Too much kerosene was drained, which ultimately caused the machine to crash before reaching the runway due to a lack of fuel. According to the surviving passenger, no engine noise could be heard before the impact.
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- Accident report B-707 9XR-IS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on September 19, 2019.
- Disabled Jet Crashes in Africa, Killing 23 as It Attempts to Land , New York Times , July 5, 2002.
- Pilot error may have caused CAR plane crash , IOL News (South Africa), July 7, 2002.
- Machine operating history on jetphotos.com
Coordinates: 4 ° 21 '52.1 " N , 18 ° 31' 54.1" E