tyrant
28th Dec 2003, 20:00
Hi all, with ref to the this thread (Missing/stolen B727)
http://www.pprune.com/forums/showth...ight=stolen+727
and this Accident report from Harro Ranter
Date: 25 DEC 2003
Time: ca 14:55
Type: Boeing 727-223
Operator: Union des Transports Africains de Guinée
Registration: 3X-GDM ??
Msn / C/n: 21089/1273?
Year built: 1977
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A
Crew: ? fatalities / 7 on board
Passengers: ? fatalities / 156 on board
Total: min. 113 fatalities / 163 on board
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: near Cotonou Airport (COO), Benin
Phase: Takeoff
Nature: International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Cotonou Airport (COO)
Destination airport: Beirut International Airport (BEY)
Flight number: GIH 141
Union des Transports Africains de Guinée operates two flights a week from Conakry, Guinea to Beirut and Dubai with their newly acquired ex-American Airlines Boeing 727. On December 25, UTA Flight 141 departed Conakry, Guinea for a scheduled flight to Beirut, Lebanon with a planned intermediate stop at Cotonou. At Cotonou nine of the 92 passengers deplaned and 73 passengers boarded the flight. It was a warm afternoon at a temperature of 32 deg. C with a light breeze as the 727 taxied to runway 24. Runway 06/24 is an asphalt runway, measuring 2400 (7874 feet) meters with a 61m (199 feet) overrun zone. According to FAA runway length requirement calculations, a fully laden Boeing 727-200 with JT8D-9 engines and a 25-degrees flap setting would, given the weather and airfield elevation, need a runway length of approx. 8000 feet.
Apparently the 727 barely climbed after takeoff, causing the main undercarriage to strike the roof of a 2-3 meters high small building housing radio equipment. The operator inside the building suffered injuries. The plane continued, smashed through the airport boundary fence, crashed and broke up on the shoreline. <BR>
Weather METAR at the time of the accident (13:55Z) was: DBBB 251400Z 17006KT 130V210 8000 FEW015 BKN250 32/27 Q1009 NOSIG=
Think its the same aircraft?????
http://www.pprune.com/forums/showth...ight=stolen+727
and this Accident report from Harro Ranter
Date: 25 DEC 2003
Time: ca 14:55
Type: Boeing 727-223
Operator: Union des Transports Africains de Guinée
Registration: 3X-GDM ??
Msn / C/n: 21089/1273?
Year built: 1977
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A
Crew: ? fatalities / 7 on board
Passengers: ? fatalities / 156 on board
Total: min. 113 fatalities / 163 on board
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: near Cotonou Airport (COO), Benin
Phase: Takeoff
Nature: International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Cotonou Airport (COO)
Destination airport: Beirut International Airport (BEY)
Flight number: GIH 141
Union des Transports Africains de Guinée operates two flights a week from Conakry, Guinea to Beirut and Dubai with their newly acquired ex-American Airlines Boeing 727. On December 25, UTA Flight 141 departed Conakry, Guinea for a scheduled flight to Beirut, Lebanon with a planned intermediate stop at Cotonou. At Cotonou nine of the 92 passengers deplaned and 73 passengers boarded the flight. It was a warm afternoon at a temperature of 32 deg. C with a light breeze as the 727 taxied to runway 24. Runway 06/24 is an asphalt runway, measuring 2400 (7874 feet) meters with a 61m (199 feet) overrun zone. According to FAA runway length requirement calculations, a fully laden Boeing 727-200 with JT8D-9 engines and a 25-degrees flap setting would, given the weather and airfield elevation, need a runway length of approx. 8000 feet.
Apparently the 727 barely climbed after takeoff, causing the main undercarriage to strike the roof of a 2-3 meters high small building housing radio equipment. The operator inside the building suffered injuries. The plane continued, smashed through the airport boundary fence, crashed and broke up on the shoreline. <BR>
Weather METAR at the time of the accident (13:55Z) was: DBBB 251400Z 17006KT 130V210 8000 FEW015 BKN250 32/27 Q1009 NOSIG=
Think its the same aircraft?????