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This plane crash takes us to the west African Nation of Algeria, which is located next to the following countries: Mali, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania and Western Sahara.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the aircraft involved in this accident.
Air Algérie Flight 6289, registered as 7 Tango- Victor Echo Zulu (7T-VEZ), was an Algerian domestic passenger flight from Tamanrasset International Airport (IATA: TMR, ICAO: DAAT), Angola to the nation's capital of, Algiers International Airport (IATA: ALG, ICAO: DAAG), Algiers with a stopover at Ghardaïa Airport (IATA: GHA, ICAO: DAUG), the flight was operated by the Algerian national airliner Air Algérie.
On the 6th of March 2003, the aircraft operating the flight was a Boeing 737-2T4, crashed near the Trans-Sahara Highway shortly after takeoff from Tamanrasset's Aguenar Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport (Also known as Tamanrasset International Airport), the crashed killed all but one of the 103 people on board the plane at the time of the accident, at the time of the accident, it was the deadliest aviation disaster on Algerian soil.
Flight 6289 took off from Tamanrasset at 15:13pm CET (Central European Time), shortly after the plane took off, an explosion occurred in one of the plane's engines, the explosion was loud enough to be heard by workers in Tamanrasset's air traffic control tower and it was heard by other witnesses in the area, debris was seen dropping onto the runway, due to the explosion, the aircraft then swayed to the left; it later then veered to the right as the crew tried to correct the plane's heading.
The aircraft continued to climb with it's landing gear still extended the plane reached a maximum height of around 400 feet before it's airspeed significantly dropped from 160 knots (300 kilometres per hour) to the plane's stall speed, then the plane descended with it's nose in an up position and the plane eventually crashed onto a field at 15:15pm CET, the plane struck the ground with it's right side and then the plane burst into flames , the wreckage then slid across the ground and it struck the airport's perimeter fence, it the crossed a road and it the finally came to a rest.
The summary of the crash was an engine failure on takeoff and pilot error which resulted in the stall.
