Date:	Sunday 29 August 1999
Time:	13:31
Type:	Learjet 35A
Owner/operator:	Corporate Jets
Registration:	N350JF
MSN:	35A-219
Year of manufacture:	1979
Total airframe hrs:	5434 hours
Cycles:	3657 flights
Engine model:	Garrett TFE731-2-2B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	25 km S of Adwa -   Ethiopia
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Luxor Airport (LXR/HELX)
Destination airport:	Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO/HKJK)
Investigating agency:	CAA Ethiopia
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Learjet N350JF was to be ferried from Naples and Luxor to Lanseria via Nairobi. An IFR flight plan was filed from Luxor to Nairobi, via Asmara, then directly over Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, on Upper Golf 650 airway, but because of the border-crossing prohibition a second flight plan was filed via Djibouti. At 13:30 UTC the crew reported over Asmara at FL450 estimating Assab, at 14:06, then Parim, at 14:14, en route to Djibouti. Somehow, the Learjet strayed off its intended course and moved deep inside Ethiopian no-fly zone from Eritrea's airspace. Ethiopian military forces thought the plane was Eritrean and decided to shoot down the plane using an anti-aircraft battery.

Probable Cause: "While flying in a no-fly zone- a route closed by a NOTAM- N350JF was mistaken for an Eritreaian fighter aircraft with a hostile intention, and hence was hit by a missile fired by the Ethiopian Defense Force and destroyed."

Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation 1999 / FAA, Office of Civil Aviation Security
NTSB

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