TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462

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TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462
TAAG Angola Airlines Boeing 737-200Adv D2-TBD CDG July 1986.png
A TAAG Angola Airlines Boeing 737-200 similar to the one involved.
Incident
Date8 November 1983 (1983-11-08)
SummaryClaimed shootdown, disputed
Sitenear Lubango Airport, Lubango, Angola
Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 737-200
Operator TAAG Angola Airlines
Registration D2-TBN
Flight origin Lubango Airport, Lubango, Angola
Destination Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda, Angola
Passengers126
Crew4
Fatalities130
Injuries0
Survivors0

The 1983 TAAG Angola Airlines Boeing 737 crash occurred just after a Boeing 737-200 took off from Lubango Airport in Lubango, Angola, on a regular domestic service as Flight DT 462 to Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Luanda on November 8, 1983. [1] [2] The aircraft had 126 passengers and four crew on board. [3]

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Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a one-year-old Boeing 737-2M2 (registration D2-TBN, factory no. 22775, and serial no. 869) that had its maiden flight on April 29, 1982, and was delivered to TAAG Angola Airlines on May 6 the same year. [4] The aircraft was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 turbofan engines. [3]

Crash

The aircraft was at 200 feet (61 m) and climbing when it began to descend and turn left. The left wingtip hit the ground, and the aircraft broke apart and burst into flames. The wreckage came to rest 800 metres (2,600 ft) from the end of the runway at Lubango Airport. The crash killed all 130 people on board. [3]

Probable cause

UNITA guerillas claimed to have shot down the aircraft, which they believed to be carrying only military personnel, with a surface-to-air missile to protest Angola's government. [5] [6] [7] Post-crash investigation of the aircraft's wreckage by the Angolan authorities reported no conclusive evidence of missile damage, and the cause of the crash is officially considered to be a mechanical failure. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "150 feared killed in Angola plane crash". news.google.com. The Milwaukee Journal. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  2. ↑ TAAG Angola Airways, timetable October 1983 (the only regular or scheduled TAAG flight leaving Lugango Airport on 8. November 1983 was flight DT462)
  3. 1 2 3 Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-2M2 D2-TBN Lubango Airport (SDD)". aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  4. ↑ "D2-TBN TAAG - Linhas Aereas de Angola Airlines Boeing 737-2M2(A) - cn 22775 / ln 869". Planespotters.net. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  5. ↑ "Unita shoots down TAAG 737". FLIGHT International. 19 November 1983.
  6. ↑ "Planecrashinfo.com synopsis". www.planecrashinfo.com. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  7. ↑ "ANGOLA JET CRASH SAID TO KILL 150 (Published 1983)". The New York Times. Associated Press. 1983-11-09. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  8. ↑ Elias, Bartholomew (2009). Airport and Aviation Security: U.S. Policy and Strategy in the Age of Global Terrorism. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p. 315. ISBN   1420070304.


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