ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333755
Date: | Friday 15 July 1960 |
Time: | 09:40 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-20-DK (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Ethiopian Air Lines |
Registration: | ET-T-18 |
MSN: | 12926 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Total airframe hrs: | 13674 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 11 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 27,5 km S of Jimma -
Ethiopia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Bulchi Airport (BCY/HABU) |
Destination airport: | Jimma Airport (JIM/HAJM) |
Narrative:Flight ET 372 departed Bulchi at 09:04Z carrying 8 passengers and a cargo of coffee. After contacting Jimma at 09:40 the pilot requested that the Jimma NDB be turned on. There was no further contact with the flight. The DC-3 crashed on a mountainside at 9400 feet altitude.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was caused by the following: a) the pilot misjudged the weather conditions in that he continued to fly into deteriorating weather conditions while trying to maintain visual flight rules; b) he misjudged the performance capabilities of the aircraft in that he attempted to climb at a speed below the minimum safe climbing speed of the aircraft."
Sources:
Bringing Africa thogether / Ethiopian Airlines, 1988
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