Plane Prangs In Arusha

[Zedd]

Yesterday a 404 belonging to Zan Air came into Arusha in Tanzania in really bad weather. The aircraft carrying passengers from Seronera in the Serongeti bounced the plane and managed to damage the undercarriage and put a ripple into the inboard section on the star board wing.

He was apparently new to the job.. poor guy

[blood brother]

Any idea of the reg??? Hopefully not ZS OAX:confused: :confused:

[Zedd]

No, Tanzanian registered... will check on the reg tomorrow

[oneeyed]

Got this from an Arusha based friend today:

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Saw the 404 fly around supposedly in VFR conditions,
but actually in ILS Cat 1 conditions. The guy and his
pax were very lucky. Arusha has quite a few hills/
Mountains around and he managed to miss them all. We
were all waiting at the airport to hear a loud bang
from the hills. The landing was a bit rough at high
speed and part of the right wing must have received
some wringing moment. The pilot was going to fly the
plane to Nairobi today for further inspection and
repairs. It belongs to wings of Zanzibar. A dodgy
outfit I would call it.
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Appears that someone might have been trying his luck a bit to hard.:sad:

[Kernel]

Why anyone would fly VFR in that weather is beyond me. We landed in Kilimanjaro the same day and the weather was almost CAT1 minima. We only saw the runway at about 3 DME coming down on the glideslope. Cloud base not too bad, but a helluva lot of rain!

Just glad everyone was OK.

[Zedd]

A 206 that took off just a little earlier had said that the vis was so bad he could hardy see the end of the runway. A lot of people had advised the pilot to proceed to Kili but for some reason we will probably never know he chose to ignore them.

However you never really know what was going through the pilots mind so cant critiize too much... but i cant imagine what it was!

[406pilot]

hi guys,

as per my info the plane was 5h-may belonging to twin wings operating out of zanzibar..heard the main gear almost came through the spar...ouch that must have hurt....by the way wht was the c-206pilot doing taking off in such crappy weather?? one wonders if he /she wasnt on a typical VFR flight plan...

keep it up there fellows,

no more 406pilot..

ps:kernel are u flying that "meet the fockers"

[ShenziRubani]

Sasa wewe umepotea wapi?? Mambo vipi Mkubwa!
giving him the benefit of the doubt, the 206 could have been one of the FMS N-reg dudes... sijui lakini...

[Renaissance]

Jambo 406,

I have not seen you here in a while. Idi Amin Dada must be furious..... PFS

How's the single turbo?

[406pilot]

hi there rennaissance

where the hell have u been buddy sti 3 rocks...just developed a similar problem as yours so keeping the cousin busy ..ur number keeps sending me to the voice mail are u back in nairobbery?

havent seen iddi amin but know a gud mate at phoenix has a share in the plane wont be too happy to fix the damage apparently the plane is already in nairoberry..only amin could have ferried that mess of a plane...

keep it up there fellows,

no more 406pilot(no use telling u wht i fly too obvious...huh shenzi?)

[Kernel]

Hi 406pilot.

Thats us, "Fokking around" for ATCL. Have to leave this country in 1 week, will really miss it:{

Safe flying

[406pilot]

hi there kernel...

did the load sheet arrive in time?? 131.80...he he he or did air traffic controller mess u up...

he he work for the same outfit but on the other fleet ...cant miss to see me bru i do wear the biggest uniform in the fleet...sizewise

keep well and safe flying i hope ur not going to afghanistan...

keep it up there fellows,

no more 406pilot

ps:heard lady capt is back in dar???

[Kernel]

OK 406, it all falls into place now!

We'll just blame the delay on us having to do manual loadsheets, ha ha!

With my luck I'll be off to Baghdad or some other beautiful area after this.

Take care, will listen for you on 131.8.

Take care
K

PS. She's back.