Date:	Monday 1 September 2008
Time:	16:00
Type:	Beechcraft 1900C-1
Owner/operator:	Air Serv International
Registration:	ZS-OLD
MSN:	UC-137
Year of manufacture:	1990
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 17
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	15 km NW of Bukavu-Kavumu Airport (BKY) -   Congo (Democratic Republic)
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Kisangani-Bangoka International Airport (FKI/FZIC)
Destination airport:	Bukavu-Kavumu Airport (BKY/FZMA)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A Beech 1900 operating on behalf of Air Serv International departed Kinshasa on a humanitarian flight to Goma (GOM). En route stops were made in Mbandaka (MDK) and Kisangani (FKI). The last stop before Goma would be Bukavu (BKY), a one hour flight from Kisangani. The airplane approached Bukavu in severe weather. It flew into a steep ridge, some 15 km northwest of Bukavu. The crash site is at about 10,000 ft above sea level and is a steep slope of mount Kahuzi. The area is thick jungle.

Humanitarian aircraft goes missing in Congo-U.N. (Reuters, 1-9-2008)
Air Serv International press release 2 SEP 2008

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

4 April 1992

N137YV

Air Midwest Inc.

0

Lamar, CO

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photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Lanseria Airport (HLA/FALA); November 1999

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