Goma - Bunia

On April 28, 2006 at 06:47 AM, Goma - Bunia experienced a crash involving Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, operated by King Air Charter, with the event recorded near Mt Margherita Western.

The flight was categorized as humanitarian and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 1, passenger fatalities: 1, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The single engine aircraft departed Goma on a humanitarian flight to Bunia, carrying one passenger, two pilots and a load consisting of 300 kilos of various goods on behalf of the World Food Programme. En route, the crew decided to follow a direct route via GPS instead of the one mentioned on the flight plan. While cruising at an altitude of 12,500 feet in poor weather conditions, the aircraft struck the slope of Mt Margherita (5,109 metres high) located in the Ruwenzori Mountain Range, western Uganda. The wreckage was found two days later and all three occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration ZS-ADL, MSN 208B-0381, year of manufacture 1994.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 0.3856°, 29.8730°.