Kenya Airways Flight 431

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Kenya Airways Flight 431
Summary
Date January 30, 2000
Type Electrical fault combined with pilot error
Site Off the Côte d'Ivoire
Passengers 169
Crew 10
Injuries 10
Fatalities 169
Survivors 10
Aircraft type Airbus A310-304
Operator Kenya Airways
Tail number 5Y-BEN

Kenya Airways Flight 481 on January 30, 2000 crashed into the sea at 21:09:24 GMT, shortly after takeoff from Abidjan (Port Bouet Airport) to Lagos (Murtala Mohammed International Airport) . There were 179 people on board the Airbus A310 jet aircraft, 169 passengers and 10 crew members. 10 passengers survived the crash. Of the 169 fatalities, 146 bodies were recovered. 103 of those bodies were identified.

The aircraft originated in Nairobi and was meant to stop over in Lagos but flew directly to Abidjan because of weather conditions over Lagos. Harmattan winds coming down from the Sahara to the north had made skies over Lagos unusually hazy on Sunday, and the airport stopped incoming flights. After a three-hour layover, the Kenya Airways Flight 431 took off for Lagos at 21:08 GMT and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the Côte d'Ivoire one minute later.

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[edit] Nationalities of passengers

Most of the passengers and crew consisted of Nigerians. Two of the crew members on board worked for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.[1]

[edit] Crew

Captain Paul Muthee, First Officer Lazaro Muli, Flight Attendant Moses Kome, Flight Attendant Rogony Richard, Flight Attendant John Makio Wandera, Flight Attendant Vincent Mwasi, Flight Attendant Ann Waeni Wakau, Flight Attendant Samira Suleiman, Flight Attendant Victor Thueri, Flight Attendant Janet Mwanjeni

[edit] Order of crash

  1. An errant stall warning sounds immediately after takeoff.
  2. The pilot put the aircraft into a descent.
  3. The crew did not apply maximum engine power.
  4. The ground proximity warning did not sound because the stall warning took precedence.
  5. Overspeed warning sounds.
  6. The Captain gives the order to climb.
  7. The aircraft collides with the sea.

[edit] Rescue

Samuel Ogbada Adje, a survivor, believes that the rescue effort contributed to the number of fatalities. He said that he waited for two hours to be rescued.[1] Rescuers extracted at least seven of the survivors from the water while one swam almost one mile to the shore.[2]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Rescuers seek more survivors of Kenya Airways crash," CNN
  2. ^ "Kenyan Plane Carrying 179 Crashes; at Least 8 Survive." The Washington Post.

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