Mcdonnell Douglas MD80 - 80 accident near Gossi, ML
On July 24, 2014, a Mcdonnell Douglas MD80 - 80 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Gossi, ML. No one was seriously hurt. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- July 24, 2014
- Place
- Gossi, ML
- Aircraft
- Mcdonnell Douglas MD80 - 80 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 0 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 15.197°N, 1.058°W
- NTSB ID
- 20140727X24207
Sequence of events
- Windshear or thunderstorm (Enroute, defining event)
Conditions
- Local time
- 1:55 AM
From Wikipedia
Air Algérie Flight 5017 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed near Gossi, Mali, on 24 July 2014. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 twinjet, operated by Spanish charter airline Swiftair for Air Algérie, disappeared from radar about fifty minutes after take-off. All 110 passengers and 6 crew members on board died.
The Malian authorities, assisted by the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA), published an investigation report in April 2016, concluding that, while the aircraft was cruising on autopilot, ice accretion on the engines caused a reduction of thrust that led to a high-altitude stall. The crew never tried to recover from the stall, and the aircraft crashed. The BEA issued several recommendations to Air Algérie, the US Federal Aviation Administration, and the Governments of Burkina Faso and Mali. Until final number of fatalities is confirmed for the 2023 Il-76 crash in Gao, the crash of Flight 5017 remains the deadliest accident in Malian aviation history.
Text from Wikipedia, “Air Algérie Flight 5017”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
