Juba – Panyagor

On November 14, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Juba – Panyagor experienced a crash involving Avro 748, operated by Global Airlift, with the event recorded near Panyagor Jonglei (<U+062C><U+0648><U+0646><U+0642><U+0644><U+064A>).

The flight was categorized as humanitarian and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 66.7%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The crew was performing a humanitarian cargo flight from Juba to Panyagor. On final approach, it seems that the crew encountered technical problems, maybe with the undercarriage. The aircraft went out of control and crashed in a huge explosion short of runway and was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire. Both pilots were killed while the engineer was seriously injured. The mission was conducted on behalf of the Lutheran World Federation. It was confirmed that ten goats were killed as well.

Aircraft reference details include registration 5Y-BVQ, MSN 1778, year of manufacture 1980.