Somali Airlines Flight 40

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Somali Airlines Flight 40
Somali Airlines Fokker F27-600 Friendship Groves.jpg

The accident machine before its delivery
Accident summary
Accident type Structural failure
place Balad , SomaliaSomaliaSomalia 
date July 20, 1981
Fatalities 50
Survivors 0
Aircraft
Aircraft type NetherlandsNetherlands Fokker F-27-600RF Friendship
operator SomaliaSomalia Somali Airlines
Mark SomaliaSomalia 6O-SAY
Departure airport Mogadishu Airport , SomaliaSomaliaSomalia 
Destination airport Hargeisa Airport , SomaliaSomaliaSomalia 
Passengers 44
crew 6th
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The Somali Airlines Flight 40 was a Somali domestic airliner airline Somali Airlines , on July 20, 1981, a Fokker F-27-600RF Friendship crashed. The machine crashed after getting into extreme turbulence that caused it to break apart. All 50 people on board were killed in the incident.

plane

The aircraft affected was a 1977 built Fokker F-27-600RF Friendship. The aircraft with the factory number 10557 was finally assembled at the Fokker plant in Schiphol and completed its maiden flight on May 27, 1977 with the test license plate PH-EXC . In June of the same year it was re-registered to the registration number PH-FTA before it was delivered to Somali Airlines on June 16, 1977 , where it received the aircraft registration number 6O-SAY . The twin-engine, short - haul aircraft was equipped with 2 Rolls-Royce Dart 532-7 turboprop engines . By the time of the accident, the machine had completed 6,087 flight hours with 2,777 take-offs and landings.

Passengers, crew and flight plan

The domestic scheduled flight was supposed to run from the Somali capital Mogadishu to Hargeisa in Somaliland in the north . 44 passengers had taken the flight, and there was also a six-person crew on board.

the accident

The take-off from Mogadishu Airport initially went without any particular incident. In the initial climb, the aircraft got into a weather zone with heavy rain and violent turbulence eight minutes after take-off. After the machine was exposed to strong vertical gusts , it went into a flat spin , in which it was subjected to loads of 5.76 G. As a result of the extreme structural overload, part of the right wing finally broke off in the air and the machine then fell to the ground near Balad, about 35 kilometers north of Mogadishu.

All 50 people were killed in the accident. It is the most serious aircraft accident in Somalia.

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