What the records say
- When
- 8 Jul 2011
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 0.47° N, 25.37° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 74
- Injured
- 40
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952
2011 aviation accident in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
On 8 July 2011, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952, a Boeing 727 passenger jet on a domestic flight from Kinshasa, to Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), crashed on final approach at Kisangani, killing 77 of the 115 people on board.
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