Addis Ababa - Entebbe - Lomé

On March 19, 2005 at 10:53 AM, Addis Ababa - Entebbe - Lomé experienced a crash involving Boeing 707, operated by Cargo Plus Aviation, with the event recorded near Entebbe Central.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 5 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The aircraft was completing a cargo flight from Addis Ababa to Lomé, Togo, with an intermediate stop in Entebbe, Uganda, carrying five crew members and a load of 32,8 tons of various goods (T-shirts) on behalf of Ethiopian Airlines. On approach to runway 17 in a 8 km visibility, the captain decided to initiate a go-around procedure. Few minutes later, while on a second attempt to land on runway 35, the crew encountered local patches of fog when, on short final, the aircraft crashed in Lake Victoria. The tail was found about 200 metres offshore while the cockpit was found near the shore. All five occupants were injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration 9G-IRL, MSN 20805, year of manufacture 1974.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 0.2124°, 32.5386°.