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Central African Airways Flight 890

1958 aviation accident

Field	Value
name	Central African Airways Flight 890
image	Central_African_Airways_Vickers_Viscount_Groves.jpg
image_upright	1.20
caption	A Central African Airways Vickers Viscount
occurrence_type	Accident
date	9 August 1958
summary	Pilot error
site	near Benina International Airport
origin	Salisbury Airport
passengers	47
crew	7
fatalities	36
injuries	Unknown
survivors	18
aircraft_type	Vickers Viscount 748D
aircraft_name	Mpika
operator	Central African Airways
tail_number	VP-YNE
stopover0	Ndola Airport
stopover1	Entebbe International Airport
stopover2	Khartoum International Airport
stopover3	Wadi Halfa Airport
last_stopover	Benina International Airport
destination	Heathrow Airport

Central African Airways Flight 890, a Vickers Viscount 745D, crashed during a scheduled passenger flight from Wadi Halfa, Sudan, to Benghazi, Libya, about 9 km southeast of Benina International Airport in Libya. A total of forty-seven passengers and seven crew members were on board of whom only eighteen survived, making it the deadliest ever plane crash in Libya at the time of the accident. It was also the deadliest accident for Central African Airways.

Cause of the crash

According to an International Civil Aviation Organization accident digest, the plane crashed while making a nighttime approach to runway 33R, and while flying in clouds the pilot descended below a safe altitude, causing the aircraft to crash into high ground. While the reason for the quick descent remains unknown, it is believed the pilot may have misinterpreted the reading of his altimeter as a result of fatigue and possible indisposition.

References

(9 August 1958). "34 die when air liner crashes". [[The Evening Times]].
(9 August 1958). "34 believed lost in airplane crash". [[The Gettysburg Times]].
[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19580809-0 Accident description] via [[Aviation Safety Network]] (Original source "ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 59-AN/54 (171–178)). Retrieved 17 August 2015

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