Aircraft Photo of RA-27114 | Mil Mi-8MTV-1 | United Nations | AirHistory.net #226759
Location
City / Airport:Kinshasa - N'djiliMap
Country:Congo-Kinshasa
Airport Codes:ICAO: FZAA   IATA: FIH   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:2007
Photo by:Simon Telliks
Photo ID: 226759
Photo Comment

Three UN Mi-8s in front of very nice and busy background. Other helicopters are Mi-8Ts RA-24135 and RA-24146. All three possibly stored. UNO number unfortunately not readable. RA-27114 was written off on 2 November 2007 while on a cargo flight from Ganta (Nimba County) to Loguatuo (on the Liberian-Ivorian border) when the tail rotor came off, only three minutes after take-off. The helicopter that only had some 3,500 flight hours on the meters, crashed into trees at the Forfor rubber farm (on the outskirts of Sanniquellie town, 265 km north-east of Monrovia). Unfortunately, all thee crew were killed in the accident.

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