What the records say
- When
- 12 Feb 2012
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 2.31° S, 28.81° E
- Description
- plane crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Deaths
- 4
- Injured
- 2
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
2012 Katanga Express Gulfstream IV crash
Aviation accident in DR Congo
On 12 February 2012, a Gulfstream IV aircraft operated by Katanga Express crashed in a plantation approximately twenty metres from Kavumu Airport near Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo while attempting to land. Both pilots and two passengers were killed in the crash. Two farmers near the impact site also died after being struck by the aircraft.
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