2024 Malakal Airport collision: Difference between revisions
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 A Boeing 727 similar to the one in the crash. | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | March 31, 2024 |
| Summary | Runway Excursion before collision with another aircraft |
| Site | Malakal Airport, South Sudan |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 727 |
| Operator | Safe Air Company |
| Flight origin | Juba International Airport, South Sudan |
| Destination | Malakal Airport, South Sudan |
| Occupants | 7 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Injuries | 1 |
| Survivors | 7 |
On March 31, 2024, a Boeing 727 with 7 occupants on board crash landed in Malakal Airport, South Sudan. It took off from Juba Airport and was a cargo flight.
Aircraft
The accident aircraft was a 45 year old Boeing 727-2Q9 owned and operated by Safe Air, a Kenyan airline founded in 2007. It's registration was 5Y-IRE, and its MSN was 21931/1531. [1][2]
It was owned by Aviancia as N202AV in 1979, before being sold to SAM Colombia with the same registration in 1992. Then, only after 2 years, the aircraft was sold to DHL Air UK with registration N741DH, being converted into a freighter. After almost 2 decades being with DHL Air UK, it was sold to a private owner in South Africa, and shortly after, after 5 years, it was sold to Safe Air. In 2021, it was used to evacuate Afghans from Kabul, carrying up to 320 occupants on the same flight. It was with Safe Air when the accident occured. [1][3]
Accident
Before the accident:
Almost 2 months before the crash, on February 9, 2024, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 owned and operated by African Airways Express crash landed at the same airport as the Safe Air Boeing 727 did, touching down short of the runway and then losing its landing gear, coming to a stop on it's belly. It was moved away from the runway and operations started at the airport again. [4]
The accident:
On March 31, 2024, the Boeing 727-200 took off from Juba Airport carrying supply's and other cargo. It was in the morning and they didn't have any problems. Their flight time was around 1hr and they were doing well. They finished cruising and were descending when they started to experience technical problems with the aircraft. They decided to make an emergency landing at the airport they were flying to already, Malakal Airport. The captain was going to perform the emergency landing. They approached the runway and then the lined the plane up with the runway, the captain attempted to land the plane. It touched down a few meters off of the runway, causing the tires to burst. As a result of the landing gear bursting and the landing off the runway, the captain lost control of the aircraft, sending it hurdling off of the runway. It went on for some time and then it stuck the previously mentioned McDonnel Douglas MD-82 that was off of the runway, causing damage to both aircraft. There were no fatalities and one reported injury. [5][6][7][8]
Reactions and Eyewitness Statements
References
- ^ a b c "5X-IRE SKA Group". onespotter.com.
- ^ a b "Aerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - Boeing 727-2Q9, c/n 21931, c/r 5Y-IRE". www.aerialvisuals.ca. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ a b "FlyJSim 727 - Safe Air Cargo 5Y-IRE (Cargo)". X-Plane.Org Forum. 2021-09-02. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ a b "Accident McDonnell Douglas MD-82 5Y-AXL,". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ a b Ranabhat, Sharad (2024-03-31). "Safe Air B727 Collides With Disabled MD-82 in South Sudan". SamChui.com. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ a b Ranabhat, Sharad (2024-03-31). "Safe Air Boeing 727 collides with disabled MD-82 while landing in South Sudan". AIRLIVE. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ a b Gleadow, Ewan (2024-03-31). "Boeing 727 loses control and crashes during landing in 'terrifying incident'". The Mirror US. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ a b "Boeing Plane Crash in Sudan: Safe Air Flight Crashes at Malakal Airfield (See Pics) | 🌎 LatestLY". LatestLY. 2024-03-31. Retrieved 2024-04-01.