CFIT Accident Antonov An-26 4L-AFS,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 320384

Date:	Sunday 28 December 2014
Time:	03:00
Type:	Antonov An-26
Owner/operator:	AG Air
Registration:	4L-AFS
MSN:	8608
Year of manufacture:	1979
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	26 km S of Uvira - Congo (Democratic Republic)
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	Bujumbura International Airport (BJM/HBBA)
Destination airport:	Pointe-Noire Airport (PNR/FCPP)

Narrative:
An Antonov cargo plane is said to have impacted a forested mountainside near Uvira, D.R. Congo, killing all six crew members.
The airplane landed at Entebbe, Uganda at 05:23 local time on December 27 for a technical stop. The airplane departed at 11:09 for Bujumbura, Burundi under flight number AGS902. After midnight on December 28 the Antonov departed Bujumbura and headed west, bound for to Pointe Noire, Congo. It impacted a mountainside just across the border in D.R. Congo.

Formally 4L-AFS was deregistered from the Georgian aircraft register in 2014.

Sources:

Radio Okapi
New Vision

Location

Images:

photo (c) Anon.; Uvira; December 2014