Summary Airliner shootdown Crew 3 Aircraft type Boeing 727-30 Destination N'djili Airport Survivor 0 | Passengers 38 Survivors 0 Date 10 October 1998 Total fatalities 41 (all) Passenger count 38 | |
Site Near Kindu, Democratic Republic of Congo Operator Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Similar 1998 Occidental Petroleu, Myanma Airways Flight 635, 1998 MIAT Mongolian Airlines cr, 1998 Ariana Afghan Ai, Olympic Airways Flight 417 | ||
The 1998 Lignes Aériennes Congolaises crash refers to a non-scheduled domestic Kindu–Kinshasa passenger service that was shot down by rebel forces, just after takeoff from Kindu Airport, during climbout, on 10 October 1998. All 41 occupants of the aircraft perished in the incident.
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Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727-30, registration 9Q-CSG, that had its maiden flight on 10 March 1965. The airframe was 33 years old at the time of the crash.
Description of the event
The Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727-30 took off from Kindu Airport (KND/FZOA) on a domestic non-scheduled passenger flight to N'djili Airport in Kinshasa with 38 passengers and 3 crew on board. Only 3 minutes into the flight, the rear of the aircraft was struck by a Russian-made shoulder-fired Strela 2 surface-to-air missile. The captain attempted an emergency landing, but the 727 crashed into a dense jungle near Kindu. All 41 people on board perished.