Asn Accident Digest 2009-21
Date: 12 NOV 2009
Time: ca 12:30
Type: Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-100ER
Operator: Rwandair Express
Registration: 5Y-JLD
C/n / msn: 7197
First flight: 1997
Engines: 2 General Electric CF34-3A1
Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Passengers: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 10
Total: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 13
Airplane damage: Substantial
Location: Kigali Airport (KGL) (Rwanda)
Phase: Taxi
Nature: International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Kigali Airport (KGL)
Destination airport: Entebbe Airport (EBB)
Flightnumber:
A Canadair CRJ-100ER RegionalJet passenger plane, 5Y-JLD, operating for Rwandair Express, was substantially damaged when it struck an airport building at Kigali Airport (KGL), Rwanda. One passenger was killed. The airplane operated on a scheduled international flight to Entebbe Airport (EBB), Uganda. Two minutes after take-off, the pilot requested to return because of unspecified technical problems. The airplane landed safely and taxied back to the apron. However, when the plane reached it's parking spot in fron of the VIP lounge, the pilot reported that the engines had failed to stop and were running at " 100 percent power" according to the Rwandair Chief Operating Officer. The airplane moved forward, knocking over blast fences until it smashed through the concrete wall of the airport building. The nose gear collapsed and the nose was burried inside the building up to and including the forward passenger doors. Weather reported about the time of the accident (12:30 local, 10:30 UTC): HRYR 121030Z VRB03KT 9999 BKN030 24/18 Q1018 NOSIG= [Wind variable at 3 knots; unlimited visibility; Broken clouds at 3000 feet; temperature 24 degrees C, dew point 18 degrees C; 1018 MB]