Air Mauritanie Flight 625

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Air Mauritanie Flight 625
Fokker F-28-4000 Fellowship Air Mauritanie 5T-CLF, RTM Rotterdam, Netherlands PP1168337550.jpg
The aircraft involved in the accident
Accident
Date1 July 1994
SummaryRunway excursion, aggravated by sandstorm
Site Tidjikja Airport, Mauritania
Aircraft
Aircraft type Fokker F28 Fellowship
Operator Air Mauritanie
Registration 5T-CLF
Flight origin Nouakchott International Airport, Mauritania
DestinationTidjikja Airport, Mauritania
Occupants93
Passengers89
Crew4
Fatalities80
Survivors13

Air Mauritanie Flight 625 was a Fokker F28 Fellowship 4000 which crashed on landing at Tidjikja Airport, Mauritania on 1 July 1994 in sandstorm conditions. All four crew and 76 of the 89 passengers were killed in the crash. It remains the deadliest crash involving a Fokker 28 and the deadliest one in Mauritania. [1] [2]

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Accident


NationalityCrewPassengersTotal
Mauritania404
Mauritania/France08989
Total48993

The aircraft was flying from Nouakchott to Tidjikja. On board were 89 Mauritanian-French nationals returning to see their family and 4 crew members. The landing was performed in a sandstorm. The F28 had made several approaches to the airport before making a heavy landing, which caused the front undercarriage to collapse and the aircraft to slide off the runway, crash into a rocky outcrop and burst into flames. [1] [3] Only 13 passengers survived, all seriously injured, [4] while all four crew members and the remaining 76 passengers died. [1] [3] The crash was the second involving a Fokker aircraft in West Africa in less than a week following the crash of Air Ivoire Flight 777 on 26 June. [5] [6] It also remains the deadliest aviation accident in Mauritania. [7] [8]

Aftermath

In the initial aftermath, the Mauritanian News Agency (AMP) said that the exact number of casualties was not directly known. [5]

Fokker announced that its team of experts would be kept available for an investigation should the Mauritanian authorities request one. [9]

According to zahraainfo.com, Mauritanian radio stations refused to cover or broadcast news about the crash with authorities refusing to declare a period of mourning, in addition to no follow up being provided by the Mauritanian Ministry of Transport. [10] The airport reportedly lacked "the most basic" air safety requirements. [10] [11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Fokker F28 Fellowship 4000 5T-CLF Tidjikja Airport (TIY)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Air Mauretanie crashes in sandstorm". Flight International : 10. 13–19 July 1994. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Air Mauretanie F28 crashes in sandstorm". Flight International. 13–19 July 1994. p. 10. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  4. ↑ Gero, David (2006). Aviation disasters: the world's major civil airliner crashes since 1950 (4th ed.). Sparkford, England: PSL. ISBN   978-0750931465.
  5. 1 2 "94 killed in air crash". The New Paper . Agence France-Presse. 2 July 1994. p. 22. Retrieved 1 June 2025– via NewspaperSG.
  6. ↑ "Crash of a Fokker F27 Friendship 400M in Abidjan: 17 killed". Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives . Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  7. ↑ "تعرف على أبرز حوادث سقوط الطائرات الموريتانية واختطافها" [Learn about the most prominent Mauritanian aircraft crashes and hijackings.]. Sahara Center for Studies and Consultations  [ ar ] (in Arabic). 15 May 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  8. ↑ "Accident Archives | Mauritania". Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives . Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  9. ↑ "Bij Fokker-vliegramp Mauritanië 94 doden" [94 dead in Fokker plane crash in Mauritania]. Amigoe (in Dutch). Vol. 111E, no. 150. Nouakchott, Mauritania. p. 11. Retrieved 2 June 2025– via Internet Archive.
  10. 1 2 "طائرة تجكجه .. 21 سنة من التجاهل الرسمى بموريتانيا" [Tijikja plane: 21 years of official neglect in Mauritania]. zahraainfo.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  11. ↑ في فاتح يوليو من العام 1994 استيقظت موريتانيا على فاجعة، كانت الطائرة "فوكر" التي تنقل عشرات المدنيين تحترق في مطار "تجكجه"، يعد الحادث الأسوأ في تاريخ الطيران الموريتاني.. هيا لنشاهد قصة طائرة تجكجه [On July 1, 1994, Mauritania woke up to a tragedy: the Fokker plane carrying dozens of civilians was on fire at Tadjikja Airport, the worst accident in the history of Mauritanian aviation. Let's watch the story of the Tadjikja airplane.]. Al Arabiya Mauritania (Video) (in Arabic). Facebook. 3 July 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
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