Allied Air Flight 111 · Accra International Airport
On June 2, 2012, Allied Air Flight 111 (Accra International Airport). No one was seriously hurt.
- Date
- June 2, 2012
- Place
- Accra International Airport
- Operator
- Allied Air
- Killed
- 0
- Injured
- 4
- Position
- 5.605°N, 0.167°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q2616916
From Wikipedia
Allied Air Flight 111 was a cargo flight operated by Lagos-based cargo airliner Allied Air, flying from Lagos, Nigeria to Accra, Ghana. The flight was operated with a Boeing 727 cargo aircraft. On 2 June 2012, the aircraft crashed on landing at Accra International Airport, killing twelve people on the ground.
The aircraft overran the runway, broke through the airport perimeter fence, and struck a minibus and bicycle on a roadway. All four crew members on the plane survived, but all 10 aboard the minibus, a cyclist and a passenger of a taxi were killed. It was the second deadliest accident in Ghanaian aviation history.
Text from Wikipedia, “Allied Air Flight 111”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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