What the records say
- When
- 9 Aug 1958
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 32.10° N, 20.27° E
- Description
- 1958 aviation accident
- Deaths
- 36
Central African Airways Flight 890
1958 aviation accident
Central African Airways Flight 890, a Vickers Viscount 745D, crashed during a scheduled passenger flight from Wadi Halfa, Sudan, to Benghazi, Libya, about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) 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.
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