What the records say
- When
- 8 Jul 2003
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 19.62° N, 37.22° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 117
- Injured
- 1
Sudan Airways Flight 139
2003 aviation accident
Sudan Airways Flight 139 was a Sudan Airways passenger flight that crashed on 8 July 2003 at Port Sudan. The Boeing 737-200 aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled Port Sudan–Khartoum passenger service. Some 15 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft lost power in one of its engines, which prompted the crew to return to the airport for an emergency landing.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article
5 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sudan Airways Flight 139, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Port Sudan, Sudan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “катастрофа Boeing 737 под Порт-Суданом, погибли 117 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ポートスーダン新国際空港からハルツーム国際空港に向かっていたスーダン航空139便(ボーイング737)が砂嵐による視界不良で着陸復航に墜落し、乗員乗客117人中116人が死亡した(スーダン航空139便墜落事故)。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
Nearby in time and place
- Karine A Affair: IDF Shayetet 13 naval commando captures the Palestinian Authority owned freighter "Karin A" in the Red Sea, which was on its way to the shores…2 Jan 2002 · Event
- 2002 Mecca girls' school fire11 Mar 2002 · Fire
- 2004 Hajj stampede2004 · Crowd crush
- 2001 Hajj stampede2001 · Crowd crush
- Treaty of Jeddah12 Jun 2000 · Treaty
- At least 76 people have died following the collapse of a five-story hotel in Mecca5 Jan 2006 · Event
- 2006 Hajj stampede12 Jan 2006 · Crowd crush
- Halaib Triangle: Sudan → Egypt (conquest)2000 · Territorial change