Date: | Tuesday 18 July 1995 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Armée de l'Air Malgache |
Registration: | 5R-MMG |
MSN: | 19525 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 36 / Occupants: 36 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Antananarivo-Ivato Airport (TNR) -
Madagascar
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Maintirano Airport (MXT/FMMO) |
Destination airport: | Antananarivo-Ivato Airport (TNR/FMMI) |
Narrative:Crashed short of the runway while on finals to runway 11.
Six military crew members and 30 passenger were killed in the accident. Two persons (one crew member, one passenger) initially survived the crash, but died later from injuries.
Sources:
Flight International 26 July-1 August 1995 (10)
Scramble 195(54)
Thomas Brügge
Le livre d'or de l'aviation malgache / J.P.Pénette & C.Pénette Lohau
Location
Images:
photo (c) Thomas Brügge; Antananarivo; 12 May 2007
photo (c) Thomas Brügge; Antananarivo-Ivato Airport (TNR/FMMI); 16 May 2007
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport (HAM); July 1971
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