We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
After takeoff from Jamba Airport, the four engine aircraft encountered difficulties to gain height, stalled and crashed in a field located few km from the airfield. The copilot and two passengers survived while 141 other occupants were killed, among them 83 children. The aircraft was completing a charter/humanitarian flight to Kinshasa to repatriate Congolese refugees. Probable cause (official findings): It is believed that the loss of control was the consequence of an overloaded aircraft that
Lockheed L-188 Electra · 141 fatalities