25 February 2014

Guicango Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia registration D2-FFZ charter flight from Luanda to Dundo , Angola with 14 passengers and 3 crew members it was en route around 150km from destination when airplane suffered an engine problem and had to shut down.The crew declared an emergency and diverted to Lukapa where the airplane landed but had a runway excursion with result the gears to collapse and the engines and wings to touch the rough terrain and to receive substantial damage.Nobody injured

D2-FFZ

First Flight:1990

Age:24 years

Engines:2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW118

 

Lukapa it has a dirty runway 18/36 with length 7900 feet / 2140 m

lucapa

 

Source

Agnonoticias