Date:	Wednesday 25 July 1990
Time:	11:16
Type:	Boeing 707-379C
Owner/operator:	Ethiopian Airlines
Registration:	ET-ACQ
MSN:	19820/709
Year of manufacture:	1968
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD) -   Ethiopia
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD/HAAB)
Destination airport:	Asmara International Airport (ASM/HAAY)
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
The Boeing aborted the runway 07 takeoff when bangs were heard followed by a momentary N1 dip of the no. 2 and 3 engines. The takeoff was aborted below V1 but the 707 overran the runway and impacted lower ground, breaking up. A flock of pigeons had collided with the plane.

Fatalities and Destroyed Civil Aircraft Due To Bird Strikes 1912-2002 / John Thorpe (International Bird Strike Committee ISBC26/WP-SA1)
ICAO Adrep Summary 3/94 (#11)

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

11 March 1969

ET-ACQ

Ethiopian Airlines

0

Frankfurt International Airport (FRA)

unk

photo (c) Raimund Stehmann; Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD); August 1993

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport (AMS); March 1990

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