Accident | |
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Date | 8 July 2011 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
Site | Bangoka International Airport, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo 0°28′13″N 25°21′17″E / 0.47028°N 25.35472°E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 727-022 |
Operator | Hewa Bora Airways |
IATA flight No. | EO952 |
ICAO flight No. | ALX952 |
Call sign | ALLCONGO 952 |
Registration | 9Q-COP |
Flight origin | N'djili Airport, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Destination | Bangoka International Airport, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Occupants | 118 |
Passengers | 112 |
Crew | 6 |
Fatalities | 74 |
Injuries | 40 |
Survivors | 44 |
On 8 July 2011, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952, a Boeing 727 passenger jet on a domestic flight from Kinshasa, to Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), crashed on final approach at Kisangani, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.