Aircraft was over 30 years old with 60,000 hours, ex PanAm, Iran Air, Uganda Airways, Dan Air, converted to freighter and passed through a number of hands on North Atlantic freight runs. Finally with Nigerian Trans-Air Limited. At the time carrying 40 tons of mining equipment bound for Esso in Lagos.
Captain Ingemar Bergelund, 25,000 hours, 10 years 707
F/O Martin Emery, 16,000 hours, 50% on multi jet
E/O Terry Boone, over 18,000 hours on the 707
Just the sort of experience you need. Notable that the F/O took a photo of the wing, he didn't expect they were going to survive, with the hope the film would survive the crash and investigators would have evidence of accident cause. Talk about cool under pressure.
Last edited by megan; 25th Jan 2020 at 02:37.