Английская Википедия:2019 Busy Bee Congo Dornier 228 crash

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox aircraft occurrence On 24 November 2019, a Dornier 228-201 twin turboprop aircraft operated by local carrier Busy Bee Congo crashed shortly after takeoff from Goma International Airport in a densely populated section of the city, killing 21 of the 22 on board and six on the ground. It is the deadliest accident involving the Dornier 228.

Background

The airline operating the plane, Busy Bee Congo, was founded in 2007 and uses Goma as the base for its fleet of Dornier 228s. Airline safety standards and maintenance practices are notoriously lax in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially among local low-price carriers, with all the local carriers banned from operating in the European Union.

Aircraft and crew

The aircraft was a Dornier 228 twin turboprop built in 1984. It had been owned by three previous operators. The aircraft did not carry a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder. While in service with Olympic Aviation (during which its registration was SX-BHC) on 9 January 1994, the aircraft was involved in an accident at when it struck power lines on approach to runway 15L at Ellinikon International Airport and its left engine failed, but landed safely with no fatalities and was repaired.

The unnamed 52-year-old captain had 14,124 flight hours, including 3,048 hours on the Dornier 228. The unnamed 29-year-old first officer had 2,273 flight hours, with 1,635 of them on the Dornier 228.Шаблон:Rp

Accident

According to reports the aircraft took off from the airport but suffered engine failure and crashed less than a minute after take off from runway 17. Witnesses describe the plane spinning three times as it crashed with thick black smoke coming from the engines. The aircraft violently burst in flames after impact in one of the densely populated areas of the city, the fire preventing locals from helping victims caught in the blaze.

19 people on board were killed on impact. One source reports that two passengers managed to be pulled from the blaze. The BBC reported at the time that nine casualties on the ground all came from one family.

Investigation

On 27 November 2019 the Permanent Office of Investigations of Aviation Accidents/Incidents (BPEA), part of the DRC's Ministry of Transport and Channels of Communication opened the investigation .

On 10 January 2020 the BPEA released the preliminary report stated that. After receiving takeoff claerance the aircraft make the takeoff on runway 17 under CAVOK weather conditions, however the takeoff roll was too longer than normal. Immediately after the aircraft was airborne the control tower notices an unusual wing roll movement. It was noticed that the aircraft climbed out too lower than normal. In that moment, quikly the aircraft descended an crashed over an unfinished house in the center of Goma. There's only one survivor from the aircraft that sustained minor injuries, while the other occupants were dead in the crash, among this the two pilots and 19 passengers, the on ground casualties was five childrens with their mother inside the unfinished house. A wooden cabin next to unfinished house was blown away by backwash make from the aircraft, living their occupants in shock. The local residents helping estinguishing the fire emerged after the crash until the firefighters were putting the fire under control.