ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 20173
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Date: | Sunday 3 June 2007 |
Time: | 20:30 LT |
Type: | Mil Mi-8T |
Owner/operator: | Paramount Airlines |
Registration: | 9L-LBT |
MSN: | 99250969 |
Year of manufacture: | 1992 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 22 / Occupants: 23 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Freetown-Lungi (FNA) -
Sierra Leone
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Freetown-Mammy Yoko Heliport (JMY) |
Destination airport: | Freetown-Lungi International Airport (FNA/GFLL) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Crashed and burned at Lungi Airport attempting to land. Only the co-pilot of the three ukrainian crew members survived seriously injured. The twenty passengers, including 14 Togolese citizen (Youth and Sports Minister Richard Olivier Attipoé, 50) were killed.
PROBABLY CAUSE(S): overload...fatigue failure...one of the five main rotor blades fell off whilst hovering at 2-4m altitude.
Sources:
1.
http://www.scramble.nl/soviet-database?view=default 2.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Paramount-Airlines/Mil-Mi-8T/1334565/L 3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6715937.stm 4.
http://en.people.cn/90001/90777/6227729.html 5.
http://www.togoforum.com/Ap/ap2007/0603072.htm 6.
http://news.sl/drwebsite/exec/view.cgi?archive=4&num=5662 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-May-2008 11:38 |
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29-May-2008 11:41 |
harro |
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05-Jul-2008 11:00 |
harro |
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20-Feb-2011 04:58 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
20-Feb-2011 05:17 |
TB |
Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
20-Feb-2011 05:20 |
TB |
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25-Feb-2011 12:02 |
TB |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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