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Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122

March 22, 2023

On 15 April 2008, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 plane crashed into a residential and market area of Goma of the Democratic Republic of the Congo immediately south of Goma International Airport.[1][2]

Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122
9Q-CHN, the aircraft involved in the accident
Failure to take off
Date15 April 2008 (14:45 UTC)
SummaryEngine failure at takeoff and runway overrun into city
SiteGoma International Airport, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1°40′53″S 29°14′22″E / 1.68139°S 29.23944°E / -1.68139; 29.23944Coordinates: 1°40′53″S 29°14′22″E / 1.68139°S 29.23944°E / -1.68139; 29.23944
Total fatalities40
Total injuries111
Aircraft
Aircraft typeMcDonnell Douglas DC-9-51
OperatorHewa Bora Airways
Call signALLCONGO 122
Registration9Q-CHN
Flight originGoma International Airport
StopoverBangoka International Airport
DestinationN'djili Airport
Occupants94
Passengers86
Crew8
Fatalities3
Injuries40
Survivors91
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities37
Ground injuries71

Background

The eastern part of the DRC had been war-torn for decades, as various factions sought control of mineral resources. Goma was a center for the air shipping of cassiterite (tin oxide ore) from Nord-Kivu.

The European Union placed all DRC airlines on its List of airlines banned in the EU. HBA has held a single exemption for a single Boeing 767-266ER tail number 9Q-CJD, construction number 193H-1209, but that too had been removed on 11 April 2008. Very similar crashes in the DRC the previous October in the capital, Kinshasa and in 1996 also came down in residential or market areas. Because the DRC has so little passable roadway, most freight is moved by air[3] and markets are common near airstrips.

HBA operated a number of different aircraft types, none of them modern. This aircraft was 31 years old.[4]

Goma is on the volcanically active Great African Rift Valley. One volcano, Nyiragongo, is so close that its January 2002 eruption destroyed the north end of runway 18/36, leaving just 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) for aircraft operations.[5] Goma International is at 1,551 metres (5,089 ft) elevation, and the mid-afternoon temperature is about 22 °C (72 °F). These factors would reduce the Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW) on the 1995 metre runway from 55 tonnes (121,000 lb) to less than 45 tonnes (99,000 lb).[6] Another report states that only 1600 to 1800 m of the runway was usable.[7] If the lower of these figures were correct, then the corresponding MTOW would be reduced another 3 tonnes (7,000 lb).

Crash

The aircraft was departing Goma bound for Kisangani. According to the director of the RVA, the number one engine caught fire after 300 metres (980 ft). The fire developed into an uncontained engine failure.[8] The aircraft subsequently overran the runway and crashed at 14:30 local time (12:30 UTC), impacting concrete homes, shops and market stalls. The crash site was located at the Birere market on l'Avenue du 20 Mai, just beyond the south end of runway 18.[9]

Casualties

There were 86 passengers and eight crew members aboard the flight. Three of the passengers and 37 people on the ground were killed in the accident. A further 40 passengers and 71 people on the ground were injured.[3][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Greek Orthodox Metropolitan bishop of Central Africa Ignatios was among the survivors of the crash. [16] Another non-Congolese survivor was an Alcatel engineer named Selami Mordeniz.[17] The fourth day more remains were recovered bringing the toll to 44, while 13 were still missing and 60 were rescued.[18][19] An additional find, coupled with two deaths in hospital, brought the toll to 47 as of 19 April.[20] The Heal Africa clinic treated many of the injured.[21] One of those still missing after 48 hours was an aid worker with the group Médecins Sans Frontières.[22]

Response

The airport had no functioning firefighting equipment.[23] The initial crash response involved several international agencies present in Goma, including several organisations of the United Nations (MONUC, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNICEF, World Health Organization) and also Médecins Sans Frontières France and the International Red Cross.[24] Members of the 6th Battalion of the Sikh Light Infantry, Indian Army, who were posted there as part of the North Kivu Brigade of the UN Mission in Congo (MONUC), swung into action to effect a rescue of 6 survivors and retrieve 18 bodies. Indian Army personnel were also involved in initial crowd control and preventing the fire that arose from spreading to thickly populated areas nearby.[25] Both flight recorders were recovered.[26]

One Kinshasa paper, Le phare, reports that airports throughout the country are still using fifty-year-old infrastructure from the Belgian colonial era.[27]

Two days after the crash, the DRC government committed to making the runway repairs neglected since January 2002.[5][28] A local human rights organization laid the blame on the DRC government:

La responsabilité du crash d'un DC 9 de la compagnie Hewa Bora Airways le 15 avril dernier à Goma est d'abord imputable au gouvernement congolais, selon le Renadhoc, Réseau national des organisations non-gouvernementales de droits de l'homme en RDC.
(The responsibility for the crash of a Hewa Bora Airways DC 9 on 15 April in Goma, lies completely irrefutably with the Congolese government, according to Renadhoc, the National Network of Non-Governmental Human Rights Organisations in the DRC.)
-Radio Okapi 2008-04-21

The German government sponsored a €15 million, three-year project to rehabilitate the 1,100-metre (3,600 ft) of buried runway following the Hewa Bora crash, but that work had been suspended when another aircraft, operated by CAA (Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation) overran onto the lava in November 2009.[29][30]

The World Bank released US$52 million in 2015 to complete the work.[31]

Investigation

In their 2011 report to Congress, the NTSB classified this accident as a major ongoing investigation in which they were assisting the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[32]

References

  1. ^ Barber, Kari (15 April 2008). . VOANews.com. Dakar: Voice of America. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  2. ^ Schwarz, Naomi (15 April 2008). "Plane crash in Congo kills at least 33". Reuters. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  3. ^ a b Abawi, Atia (15 April 2008). . CNN.com. CNN. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  4. ^ Kaminski-Morrow, David (15 April 2008). "Hewa Bora DC-9 crashes in Congolese town". Flight. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  5. ^ a b "In pictures: Volcano wreaks havoc". BBC News. 19 January 2002. Retrieved 15 May 2008. "Aéroport de Goma, le gouvernement s'engage à réhabiliter la piste d'atterrissage" (in French). Radio Okapi. 17 April 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  6. ^ (PDF). DC-9 Airplane Characteristics for Airport Planning Rev F. Boeing. May 1984. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  7. ^ "Crash de Goma: Mwando Nsimba très fâché!" (in French). Kinshasa: Le Phare RDC. 21 April 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  8. ^ (in French). Radio Okapi. 16 April 2008. Archived from the original on 21 April 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  9. ^ (in French). Radio Okapi. 16 April 2008. Archived from the original on 21 May 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  10. ^ "NTSB Identification: DCA08RA050". NTSB. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  11. ^ . London: Sky News. 15 April 2008. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  12. ^ . International Herald Tribune. Paris: The New York Times Company. 15 April 2008. Archived from the original on 25 June 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  13. ^ "20 missing after Congo plane crash". CNN. 16 April 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  14. ^ Zajtman, Arnaud (16 April 2008). . France 24. Archived from the original on 8 March 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  15. ^ (in French). Radio Okapi. 17 April 2008. Archived from the original on 21 April 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  16. ^ Katsikas, N. "Metropolitan Ignatios survives air crash in Congo". Athens News Agency. Retrieved 16 April 2008.
  17. ^ Şeref, Dinçer (20 April 2008). "Ölülerin arasından sürünerek çıktım" (in Turkish). Milliyet. Retrieved 20 April 2008.
  18. ^ . International Herald Tribune. Paris: The New York Times Company. Associated Press. 17 April 2008. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  19. ^ (in French). Radio Okapi. 18 April 2008. Archived from the original on 21 April 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  20. ^ "DRC plane crash toll rises to 47". Relief Web. 19 April 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  21. ^ Kambale, Albert (16 April 2008). "Rescuers scour debris of DR Congo plane crash which killed 40". France24. Retrieved 28 April 2008.[dead link]
  22. ^ . Médecins Sans Frontières. 18 April 2008. Archived from the original on 22 April 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  23. ^ "A part Ndjili et Loano, nos aéroports dépourvus de services anti incendie" (in French). Kinshasa: Le Phare RDC. 17 April 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  24. ^ Young, Eoin (16 April 2008). . MONUC. Archived from the original on 21 April 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  25. ^ "Indian Army soldiers rescue Congo crash victims". Zeenews. 18 April 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2008. - not a wp:RS
  26. ^ Kaminski-Morrow, David (17 April 2008). "Flight recorders recovered from crashed Hewa Bora Airways DC-9". Flight. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  27. ^ Kimpozo Mayala, Jacques (17 April 2008). "RDC: des aéroports d'une autre époque" (in French). Kinshasa: Le Phare RDC. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  28. ^ (in French). Le Phare RDC. 17 April 2008. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  29. ^ (in French). Radio Okapi. 22 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  30. ^ "Goma : crash d'un avion de CAA, quelques blessés" (in French). Radio Okapi. 19 November 2009.
  31. ^ "La Banque mondiale débloque 52 millions USD pour la réhabilitation de l'aéroport de Goma". Radio Okapi. 17 March 2015.
  32. ^ https://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/agency_reports/2011annualreport.pdf[bare URL PDF]

External links

 
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On 15 April 2008 Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122 a McDonnell Douglas DC 9 51 plane crashed into a residential and market area of Goma of the Democratic Republic of the Congo immediately south of Goma International Airport 1 2 Hewa Bora Airways Flight 1229Q CHN the aircraft involved in the accidentFailure to take offDate15 April 2008 14 45 UTC SummaryEngine failure at takeoff and runway overrun into citySiteGoma International Airport Democratic Republic of the Congo 1 40 53 S 29 14 22 E 1 68139 S 29 23944 E 1 68139 29 23944 Coordinates 1 40 53 S 29 14 22 E 1 68139 S 29 23944 E 1 68139 29 23944Total fatalities40Total injuries111AircraftAircraft typeMcDonnell Douglas DC 9 51OperatorHewa Bora AirwaysCall signALLCONGO 122Registration9Q CHNFlight originGoma International AirportStopoverBangoka International AirportDestinationN djili AirportOccupants94Passengers86Crew8Fatalities3Injuries40Survivors91Ground casualtiesGround fatalities37Ground injuries71 Contents 1 Background 2 Crash 3 Casualties 4 Response 5 Investigation 6 References 7 External linksBackground EditThe eastern part of the DRC had been war torn for decades as various factions sought control of mineral resources Goma was a center for the air shipping of cassiterite tin oxide ore from Nord Kivu The European Union placed all DRC airlines on its List of airlines banned in the EU HBA has held a single exemption for a single Boeing 767 266ER tail number 9Q CJD construction number 193H 1209 but that too had been removed on 11 April 2008 Very similar crashes in the DRC the previous October in the capital Kinshasa and in 1996 also came down in residential or market areas Because the DRC has so little passable roadway most freight is moved by air 3 and markets are common near airstrips HBA operated a number of different aircraft types none of them modern This aircraft was 31 years old 4 Goma is on the volcanically active Great African Rift Valley One volcano Nyiragongo is so close that its January 2002 eruption destroyed the north end of runway 18 36 leaving just 2 kilometres 1 2 mi for aircraft operations 5 Goma International is at 1 551 metres 5 089 ft elevation and the mid afternoon temperature is about 22 C 72 F These factors would reduce the Maximum Takeoff Weight MTOW on the 1995 metre runway from 55 tonnes 121 000 lb to less than 45 tonnes 99 000 lb 6 Another report states that only 1600 to 1800 m of the runway was usable 7 If the lower of these figures were correct then the corresponding MTOW would be reduced another 3 tonnes 7 000 lb Crash EditThe aircraft was departing Goma bound for Kisangani According to the director of the RVA the number one engine caught fire after 300 metres 980 ft The fire developed into an uncontained engine failure 8 The aircraft subsequently overran the runway and crashed at 14 30 local time 12 30 UTC impacting concrete homes shops and market stalls The crash site was located at the Birere market on l Avenue du 20 Mai just beyond the south end of runway 18 9 Casualties EditThere were 86 passengers and eight crew members aboard the flight Three of the passengers and 37 people on the ground were killed in the accident A further 40 passengers and 71 people on the ground were injured 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 Greek Orthodox Metropolitan bishop of Central Africa Ignatios was among the survivors of the crash 16 Another non Congolese survivor was an Alcatel engineer named Selami Mordeniz 17 The fourth day more remains were recovered bringing the toll to 44 while 13 were still missing and 60 were rescued 18 19 An additional find coupled with two deaths in hospital brought the toll to 47 as of 19 April 20 The Heal Africa clinic treated many of the injured 21 One of those still missing after 48 hours was an aid worker with the group Medecins Sans Frontieres 22 Response EditThe airport had no functioning firefighting equipment 23 The initial crash response involved several international agencies present in Goma including several organisations of the United Nations MONUC Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs UNICEF World Health Organization and also Medecins Sans Frontieres France and the International Red Cross 24 Members of the 6th Battalion of the Sikh Light Infantry Indian Army who were posted there as part of the North Kivu Brigade of the UN Mission in Congo MONUC swung into action to effect a rescue of 6 survivors and retrieve 18 bodies Indian Army personnel were also involved in initial crowd control and preventing the fire that arose from spreading to thickly populated areas nearby 25 Both flight recorders were recovered 26 One Kinshasa paper Le phare reports that airports throughout the country are still using fifty year old infrastructure from the Belgian colonial era 27 Two days after the crash the DRC government committed to making the runway repairs neglected since January 2002 5 28 A local human rights organization laid the blame on the DRC government La responsabilite du crash d un DC 9 de la compagnie Hewa Bora Airways le 15 avril dernier a Goma est d abord imputable au gouvernement congolais selon le Renadhoc Reseau national des organisations non gouvernementales de droits de l homme en RDC The responsibility for the crash of a Hewa Bora Airways DC 9 on 15 April in Goma lies completely irrefutably with the Congolese government according to Renadhoc the National Network of Non Governmental Human Rights Organisations in the DRC Radio Okapi 2008 04 21 The German government sponsored a 15 million three year project to rehabilitate the 1 100 metre 3 600 ft of buried runway following the Hewa Bora crash but that work had been suspended when another aircraft operated by CAA Compagnie Africaine d Aviation overran onto the lava in November 2009 29 30 The World Bank released US 52 million in 2015 to complete the work 31 Investigation EditIn their 2011 report to Congress the NTSB classified this accident as a major ongoing investigation in which they were assisting the Democratic Republic of the Congo 32 References Edit Barber Kari 15 April 2008 More Than 70 Killed in Eastern DRC Plane Crash VOANews com Dakar Voice of America Archived from the original on 20 April 2008 Retrieved 24 April 2008 Schwarz Naomi 15 April 2008 Plane crash in Congo kills at least 33 Reuters Retrieved 24 April 2008 a b Abawi Atia 15 April 2008 Plane crashes into African marketplace CNN com CNN Archived from the original on 20 April 2008 Retrieved 24 April 2008 Kaminski Morrow David 15 April 2008 Hewa Bora DC 9 crashes in Congolese town Flight Reed Business Information Retrieved 24 April 2008 a b In pictures Volcano wreaks havoc BBC News 19 January 2002 Retrieved 15 May 2008 Aeroport de Goma le gouvernement s engage a rehabiliter la piste d atterrissage in French Radio Okapi 17 April 2008 Retrieved 24 April 2008 Section 3 0 Airplane Performance PDF DC 9 Airplane Characteristics for Airport Planning Rev F Boeing May 1984 Archived from the original PDF on 13 October 2012 Retrieved 24 April 2008 Crash de Goma Mwando Nsimba tres fache in French Kinshasa Le Phare RDC 21 April 2008 Retrieved 24 April 2008 RVA apres 300 metres le moteur numero 1 a pris feu donc il y avait une explosion in French Radio Okapi 16 April 2008 Archived from the original on 21 April 2008 Retrieved 24 April 2008 Goma ville moitie paralysee 34 morts et plus d une centaine de blesses dernier bilan provisoire du crash in French Radio Okapi 16 April 2008 Archived from the original on 21 May 2008 Retrieved 24 April 2008 NTSB Identification DCA08RA050 NTSB Retrieved 20 June 2014 Dozens Dead After Congo Plane Crash London Sky News 15 April 2008 Archived from the original on 26 August 2014 Retrieved 28 April 2008 Congolese plane crashes into market town International Herald Tribune Paris The New York Times Company 15 April 2008 Archived from the original on 25 June 2008 Retrieved 28 April 2008 20 missing after Congo plane crash CNN 16 April 2008 Retrieved 28 April 2008 Zajtman Arnaud 16 April 2008 Death toll unclear after plane crashes in Goma France 24 Archived from the original on 8 March 2013 Retrieved 28 April 2008 Goma 72 heures apres le crash la recherche des corps se poursuit in French Radio Okapi 17 April 2008 Archived from the original on 21 April 2008 Retrieved 24 April 2008 Katsikas N Metropolitan Ignatios survives air crash in Congo Athens News Agency Retrieved 16 April 2008 Seref Dincer 20 April 2008 Olulerin arasindan surunerek ciktim in Turkish Milliyet Retrieved 20 April 2008 Toll from Congo plane crash rises to 44 International Herald Tribune Paris The New York Times Company Associated Press 17 April 2008 Archived from the original on 25 January 2009 Retrieved 28 April 2008 Crash de Goma 44 morts 60 passagers rescapes 13 disparus in French Radio Okapi 18 April 2008 Archived from the original on 21 April 2008 Retrieved 24 April 2008 DRC plane crash toll rises to 47 Relief Web 19 April 2008 Retrieved 28 April 2008 Kambale Albert 16 April 2008 Rescuers scour debris of DR Congo plane crash which killed 40 France24 Retrieved 28 April 2008 dead link MSF colleague disappears in Goma plane crash Medecins Sans Frontieres 18 April 2008 Archived from the original on 22 April 2008 Retrieved 28 April 2008 A part Ndjili et Loano nos aeroports depourvus de services anti incendie in French Kinshasa Le Phare RDC 17 April 2008 Retrieved 28 April 2008 Young Eoin 16 April 2008 MONUC expresses its sympathy to the Goma air tragedy victims MONUC Archived from the original on 21 April 2008 Retrieved 28 April 2008 Indian Army soldiers rescue Congo crash victims Zeenews 18 April 2008 Retrieved 28 April 2008 not a wp RS Kaminski Morrow David 17 April 2008 Flight recorders recovered from crashed Hewa Bora Airways DC 9 Flight Reed Business Information Retrieved 28 April 2008 Kimpozo Mayala Jacques 17 April 2008 RDC des aeroports d une autre epoque in French Kinshasa Le Phare RDC Archived from the original on 26 August 2014 Retrieved 28 April 2008 Bousculade pour le deuil de Birere in French Le Phare RDC 17 April 2008 Archived from the original on 4 October 2011 Retrieved 28 April 2008 Goma sans motifs valables la rehabilitation de la piste de l aeroport stoppee depuis 3 semaines in French Radio Okapi 22 November 2009 Archived from the original on 29 July 2014 Retrieved 14 April 2010 Goma crash d un avion de CAA quelques blesses in French Radio Okapi 19 November 2009 La Banque mondiale debloque 52 millions USD pour la rehabilitation de l aeroport de Goma Radio Okapi 17 March 2015 https www ntsb gov doclib agency reports 2011annualreport pdf bare URL PDF External links Edit Democratic Republic of the Congo portal Aviation portal Wikinews has related news Plane crash in Congo kills at least 70 Dozens killed as DC 9 jet crashes in Congo Houston Chronicle African air crash kills 75 15 survive CNN Video footage of disaster Crash survivor God still has work for us to do Patrick Smith Ask the pilot Salon page 2 2008 04 25 ad supported site Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network UN staff among few survivors of deadly plane crash in eastern DR Congo UN Daily News 2008 04 15 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122 amp oldid 1129929359, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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