What the records say
- When
- 10 Oct 1998
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 2.95° N, 25.95° E
- Description
- aircraft shot down by rebel forces at Kindu Airport
- Deaths
- 41
- Injured
- 0
1998 Congo Airlines Boeing 727 crash
1998 aviation incident in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
On 10 October 1998, a Congo Airlines Boeing 727 flying a non-scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kindu to Kinshasa was shot down by rebel forces shortly after taking off. The plane later crashed in a jungle killing all occupants on board the aircraft.
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