Georgian Airways Flight 834 · N'Djili International Airport
On April 4, 2011, Georgian Airways Flight 834 (N'Djili International Airport). 32 people died.
- Date
- April 4, 2011
- Place
- N'Djili International Airport
- Operator
- Georgian Airways
- Killed
- 32
- Position
- 4.382°S, 15.453°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q2976024
From Wikipedia
On 4 April 2011, Georgian Airways Flight 834, a Bombardier CRJ100 passenger jet of Georgian Airways operating a domestic flight from Kisangani to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), crashed while attempting to land at Kinshasa Airport. The aircraft, which was chartered by the United Nations, was trying to land during a thunderstorm. Of the 33 people on board, only one person survived. The incident remains the United Nations' deadliest aviation disaster. It is also the third-deadliest air disaster involving the CRJ100/200, behind Comair Flight 5191 and China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210.
The government of the DRC set up an investigation commission to probe the crash. It concluded that the aircraft had encountered a microburst moments after initiating a go-around, causing it to rapidly lose its altitude. Even though the crew's weather radar had depicted severe weather activity around the airport, the crew did not discontinue their flight to Kinshasa. Following the rapid altitude loss, the crew failed to recover the aircraft due to its very low altitude.
Text from Wikipedia, “Georgian Airways Flight 834”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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