2012 Aéro-Service Ilyushin Il-76 crash

Aviation accident in the Republic of the Congo July 2014 Aviacon Zitotrans Ilyushin Il-76 MRD-2.jpg 1.1 An Ilyushin Il-76 similar to the aircraft involved Accident 2012 11 30 yes Crashed during final approach; under investigationAugust 2023 Maya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo 4 15 50.50 S 15 14 6.92 E type:event inline,titleFebruary 2026 32 14 26 14 Ilyushin Il-76T Air Highnesses on behalf of Aéro-Service EK-76300 Pointe Noire Airport, Republic of the Congo Maya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo 6 1 5 6 0 On 30 November 2012, an Ilyushin Il-76 freighter aircraft, operated by the Armenian cargo airline Air Highnesses on behalf of Congolese cargo airline Aéro-Service, crashed on landing at Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, killing all six occupants and 26 people on the ground. The aircraft was on a domestic flight from Pointe Noire Airport to Maya-Maya Airport and was attempting to land on runway 5L in heavy rain when it clipped high trees about 1000 m ft yd from the runway threshold, disintegrating over 500 m ft yd.http://avherald.com/h?article=459df3ac&opt=0 Crash: Aero Services IL76 at Brazzaville on Nov 30th 2012, impacted buildings short of runway 28 February 2013 2 August 2013 Simon Hradecky The Aviation Herald The aircraft caught fire and was destroyed, killing all five Armenian crew and an Armenian policeman present on board, as well as 26 local residents, injuring a further 14. Investigation In February 2013, the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) received the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder for analysis on behalf of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of the Congo, and was working to download the data. References 20121130-0 Cargo plane crashes into houses in Congo-Brazzaville, killing 32 BNO News 1 December 2012 http://www.bnowire.com/2012/12/01/cargo-plane-crashes-into-houses-in-congo-brazzaville-killing-32/ usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20141231122725/http://www.bnowire.com/2012/12/01/cargo-plane-crashes-into-houses-in-congo-brazzaville-killing-32/ 31 December 2014 2 Category:2012 disasters in Africa Category:2012 in the Republic of the Congo Category:21st-century disasters in the Republic of the Congo Category:November 2012 in Africa Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 2012 Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in the Republic of the Congo Category:Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-76