Date:	Saturday 10 October 1998
Time:
Type:	Boeing 727-30
Owner/operator:	Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises - LAC / CAL
Registration:	9Q-CSG
MSN:	18369/125
Year of manufacture:	1965
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 41 / Occupants: 41
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	near Kindu Airport (KND) -   Congo (Democratic Republic)
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Kindu Airport (KND/FZOA)
Destination airport:	Kinshasa (unknown airport)

Narrative:
The airplane was shot down by rebel forces with a 9K32 Strela-2 shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missile (also known as SA-7) about three minutes after leaving Kindu for Kinshasa. The Boeing crashed into dense jungle while the captain tried to carry out an emergency landing.

Flight International 13-19 January 1999
Tommy Maurer

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse-EuroAirport Swiss (BSL); May 1985

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