ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 318962
| Date: | Wednesday 21 July 2021 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-8-106 |
| Owner/operator: | Skyward Express |
| Registration: | 5Y-GRS |
| MSN: | 355 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1993 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 41 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Burahache Airstrip -
 Somalia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Nairobi-Wilson Airport (WIL/HKNW) |
| El Wak Airport | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A Skyward Express DHC-8-106 suffered an accident during an attempted landing at site on the Kenya-Somali border.
The aircraft operated on a flight from Nairobi-Wilson Airport to El Wak in Kenya.
For reasons to be ascertained, the flight reportedly landed at an airstrip at Burahache, Somalia, just across the border from El Wak and 18 km to the east of the El Wak Airport.
Photos from the scene suggest the left-hand main landing gear collapsed after striking a boulders at the side of the airstrip.
Sources:
nation.africa
hornobserver.com
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