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1995 Trans Service Airlift Electra crash

Aviation disaster in Angola

Field	Value
occurrence_type	Accident
name	Trans Service Airlift Lockheed L-188 Crash
image	Lockheed L-188 Electra, Lineas Aereas Paraguayas (LAP) JP21284.jpg
caption	The aircraft involved in the accident while still in service with Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas (LAP)
date
summary	Overloading, loss of control
site	Jamba, Cuando, Angola
aircraft_type	Lockheed L-188C Electra
tail_number	9Q-CRR
operator	Trans Service Airlift
origin	Jamba, Angola (airport not named)
destination	unknown (northern Angola)
occupants	144
passengers	139
crew	5
injuries	3
fatalities	141
survivors	3

The Trans Service Airlift Lockheed L-188 crash occurred on 18 December 1995 when a Lockheed L-188C Electra owned by Trans Service Airlift crashed near Jamba, Angola, killing 141 of the passengers and crew.

Background

Trans Service Airlift (TSA), was a private company headquartered at Ndjili Airport, Kinshasa. The Electra was one of a number of ageing aircraft operated by TSA. Built in 1959, it was sold to TSA in 1992, after service with other operators.

On the date of the accident, the aircraft was flying a special charter for UNITA. Following the 1993 trade embargo on UNITA there were frequent "sanction busting" flights out of Zaire. TSA was one of the companies cited in connection with these operations. These flights rarely carried weapons (which were typically supplied over ground routes); usual cargoes were personnel, fuels, food, and medical supplies. The Angolan Government later claimed the aircraft was carrying weapons.

Accident

The aircraft, with 139 passengers and five crew members, was carrying forty more people than the plane was designed to carry, without taking cargo into account. It crashed two minutes after take-off. Some reports speculate that cargo may have slid to the back of the plane, resulting in a weight imbalance and causing the crash.

Initial reports by Zairean officials stated that the plane crashed near Cahungula, Lunda Norte Province, while transporting diamond miners from Zaire's capital, Kinshasa.

The co-pilot and two passengers survived the initial crash. The accident was the deadliest plane crash in 1995 until the crash of American Airlines Flight 965 two days later. It remains the deadliest ever plane crash in Angola.

References

(1995-12-21). "136 Perish in Zairian Air Crash". The Moscow Times.
Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 757-223 N651AA Buga".
Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-188C Electra 9Q-CRR Cahungula, Lunda Norte".

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