| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | Monday 28 April 2008 |
| Time: | 12:40 |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Operator: | AIM Air |
| Registration: | 5Y-SPK |
| MSN: | 208B0243 |
| First flight: | 1990 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Aircraft fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Doro Airstrip ( South Sudan)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Int'l Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Doro Airstrip, South Sudan |
| Nairobi-Wilson Airport (WIL/HKNW), Kenya |
Plane landed at a medical mission station in Sudan to pick up four mission personnel. On takeoff the aircraft lifted off from a wet and somewhat muddy airstrip, but was not able to safely clear the obstacles at the end of the runway. The left wing of the plane struck the trunk of a tree and the plane went into a ditch and flipped onto its back.
Sources:
» AIM International - USA news release» Scramble 358
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Doro Airstrip to Nairobi-Wilson Airport as the crow flies is 1294 km (809 miles).
Distance from Doro Airstrip to Nairobi-Wilson Airport as the crow flies is 1294 km (809 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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