What the records say
- When
- 25 Dec 2003
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 6.37° N, 2.42° E
- Description
- 2003 aviation accident in Benin
- Deaths
- 141
- Injured
- 22
UTA Flight 141
2003 aviation accident in Benin
UTA Flight 141 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Guinean regional airline Union des Transports Africains de Guinée (UTA), flying from Conakry to Dubai with stopovers in Benin, Libya and Lebanon. On Christmas Day 2003, the Boeing 727–223 operating the flight struck a building and crashed into the Bight of Benin while rolling for take off from Cotonou, killing 141 people.
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- 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 “UTA Flight 141: a Boeing 727 of United Transit Airlines originating in the Guinean capital, Conakry, stopping in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and bound for Beirut,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “катастрофа «Boeing 727» в Котону, погиб 141 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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