ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325713
Date: | Tuesday 10 September 1991 |
Time: | |
Type: | Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M |
Owner/operator: | Scibe Airlift Cargo Zaire |
Registration: | 9Q-CBE |
MSN: | 10655 |
Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | near Kigali -
Rwanda
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | Kigali Airport (KGL/HRYR) |
Destination airport: | Goma Airport (GOM/FZNA) |
Narrative:While en route from Kigali, the F-27 was hit by a missile, reportedly fired from the ground by Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels. One passenger was injured.
A safe landing was made at Goma. Scibe Airlift then withdrew the plane from service and stored it at Goma.
Sources:
Airlines 1992
Shooting down the truth about Rwanda / Barrie Collins, 16 April 2012 Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Farnborough Airport (FAB); September 1984
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