2012 Aéro-Service Ilyushin Il-76 crash

Fatal aviation disaster in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

4°15′00″S 15°16′00″E / 4.2500°S 15.2667°E / -4.2500; 15.2667Total fatalities32Total injuries14AircraftAircraft typeIlyushin Il-76TOperatorAir Highnesses on behalf of Aéro-ServiceRegistrationEK-76300Flight originPointe Noire Airport, Republic of the CongoDestinationMaya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, Republic of the CongoOccupants6Passengers1Crew5Fatalities6Survivors0Ground casualtiesGround fatalities26Ground injuries14

On 30 November 2012, an Ilyushin Il-76 freighter aircraft, operated by the Armenian cargo airline Air Highnesses on behalf of Congolese cargo airline Aéro-Service, crashed on landing at Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo,^[1] killing all six occupants and 26 people on the ground.^[2]

The aircraft was on a domestic flight from Pointe Noire Airport to Maya-Maya Airport and was attempting to land on runway 5L in heavy rain when it clipped high trees about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft; 1,100 yd) from the runway threshold, disintegrating over 500 metres (1,600 ft; 550 yd).^[2] The aircraft caught fire and was destroyed, killing all five Armenian crew and an Armenian policeman present on board, as well as 26 local residents, injuring a further 14. The aircraft was initially mistakenly attributed to Trans Air Congo.^[3]

Investigation

In February 2013, the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) received the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder for analysis on behalf of the Ministry of Transport of Congo, and was working to download the data.^[2]

References

^ Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network
^ ^a ^b ^c Hradecky, Simon (28 February 2013). "Crash: Aero Services IL76 at Brazzaville on Nov 30th 2012, impacted buildings short of runway". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
^ "Cargo plane crashes into houses in Congo-Brazzaville, killing 32". BNO News. 1 December 2012. Archived from the original on 31 December 2014.