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Romeo E.T.
28th Jun 2007, 15:36
being reported at Avcom and Africa Aviation / Afrika Lugvaart website...
Plane crashes in Angola
Luanda - An Angolan Airlines plane crashed on landing at an airport in northern Angola on Thursday, killing six people, news reports said.
The Boeing 737 plane carrying 78 people crashed when it landed at an airport in M'banza Congo, a town about 300km north of the capital, Luanda, state news agency Angop reported from the scene.
Officials could not immediately confirm the accident.
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Gauteng Pilot
28th Jun 2007, 17:39
M'BANZA CONGO, Angola (Reuters) -- A Boeing 737 belonging to Angola's state TAAG airline has crashed in the northern city of M'banza Congo, killing at least six people and badly injuring others, Angola's ANGOP news agency reports.
The airplane was carrying 78 passengers and was en route from Luanda to M'Banza Congo, which is in northern Angola near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The agency said the plane lost control while making an emergency landing and crashed into a building, destroying it. It said a number of severely injured passengers were taken to hospital for treatment.
The agency said among those killed in the accident Thursday was the municipal administrator of M'Banza Congo and a senior Roman Catholic priest from Italy.
It said the cause of the accident was under investigation.
The crash came on the same day that the European Union added TAAG Angolan Airlines to a list of international airlines barred from flying in its airspace due to safety reasons.
TAAG, Angola's flag carrier, flies to a number of destinations in Angola as well as cities in Africa, Europe and South America.
Angola's worst recent year for air accidents occurred in 2000, when two separate crashes claimed 87 lives in the southwest African country in one month.
In the first crash, a Russian-built passenger plane crashed after exploding in the air in northeast Angola, killing all 48 people aboard. UNITA rebels, who at the time were engaged in a bitter civil war with Angola's Russian-backed government, claimed responsibility.
Two weeks later a Russian-built Antonov airplane crashed near the capital Luanda, killing all 39 people aboard
ALLSTATIONS
28th Jun 2007, 18:05
Does anyone know if this was one of their new 737 800's?
driver airframe
28th Jun 2007, 19:04
This is really SAD NEWS.....
From ASN ACCIDENT DIGEST
Type: Boeing 737-2M2
Operator: TAAG
Registration: D2-TBP
C/n / msn: 23220/1084
First flight: 28 JAN 1985
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17A
Crew: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7
Passengers: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 71
Total: Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 78
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: M'Banza Congo Airport (SSY) ( Angola )
Phase: Landing
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Luanda-4 de Fevereiro Airport (LAD/FNLU), Angola
Destination airport: M'Banza Congo Airport (SSY/FNBC), Angola
Narrative:
The TAAG Boeing 737 departed Luanda on a domestic flight to M'Banza Congo Airport (SSY) and Negage Airport (GXG). Initial press reports indicated that the airplane crashed on landing. It either touched down short of the runway or went off the runway while attempting to land at M'Banza Congo. The airport has a single asphalt runway (16/34) which is 1800 m long.
alexmcfire
28th Jun 2007, 21:58
Pic from the airport and a previous crash, http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0027086/M/
beechbum
28th Jun 2007, 22:47
Ref: The above 727 crash. We were sent in to salvage what was left of the aircraft. Within a few days everything had been stripped, wiring instrumentation you name it. There was a furrow of some sorts approximately 1 metre deep at the beginning of he runway and the aircraft landed short, put the main gear into the ditch where it was subsequently ripped off. If I remember rightly the left main gear tore off the left engine and the aircraft came to a stop on the right side of the runway resting on top of a house. By the picture you can clearly see how close the houses were to the side of the runway!
alexmcfire
28th Jun 2007, 23:11
Can´t find any other pics of the airport, you got any?
beechbum
28th Jun 2007, 23:24
I have pics of the crash site of the 727 some years back..but thats it!
Where they are though is anyones guess....will have to hunt them down!
alexmcfire
28th Jun 2007, 23:41
Cheers, thanks for the effort...:ok:
Surprized none of the villagers that wonder across and up and down that runway were not taken out. Wild place...
alexmcfire
29th Jun 2007, 06:50
Pic of the crashed plane here, http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=541591
kestrel539
29th Jun 2007, 17:48
Flew in there quite a few times in a C207 some 10 years ago.
Some of the nicest people I ever met. Quite right tho', always had to make sure the runway was clear.
oerlikon
30th Jun 2007, 00:27
You think they dodged pedestrians?
African aviation at its best.
I remember a few years ago when TAAG got its first 747. The first crew were washed out for incompetence, The second lot of crew were trained under new instructors, because the the crew weren't the problem, the instructors were.
I also remember TAAG flying GPS let-downs because the radio beacons at ALL airfields were U/S. Apart from the NDB at Luanda.
What can one expect from those situations?
Notwithstanding this latest and other frequent unfortunate incidents, we all know about the lacking standards of aviation in Angola. This is a country where the dollar rules and bribery is rife.
Any country where the President's daughter can take over the secondary industry and have her opposition merely "kicked-out" is a matter for concern. After all - who is going to challenge such influence (Gemini Airlines - Sorry - had to be said!).
Somehow it is not surprising that the EU has finaly banned TAAG. All the new aircraft in the world are not going to change the Angolan's standards and approach to safety and efficiency.
AeroEntusiasta
4th Jul 2007, 00:28
Hi all.
Follow shot of D2-TBP when arrived at Porto Alegre to maintenance check (16/MAY/2004).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Aeroentusiasta/1%20-%20JETS/d2tbp160504.jpg
Best regards.
Fábio Luís Fonseca
www.AeroEntusiasta.com.br (http://www.AeroEntusiasta.com.br)
Porto Alegre - Brasil
alexmcfire
4th Jul 2007, 21:44
AAL, can you explain the situation at TAAG with prez daughter?:confused:
Latest on the crash http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20070628-0
6 dead onboard when the plane crashlanded and hit two buildings and a car,
one on the ground died as well.
Seem like they where using STP Airways from Sao Tome and Principe as well before, but these two flight to Portugal has been banned as well
http://allafrica.com/stories/200707021129.html