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This crash takes us to the Western African nation of Benin, which is located next to the following countries: Niger, Nigeria, Togo and Burkina Faso.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the destroyed cockpit after the plane crashed.
UTA Flight 141, registered as 3 Xray- Golf Delta Oscar (3X-GDO), was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Guinean regional airline, Union des Transports Africains de Guinée, which was flying from Gbessia International Airport (IATA: CKY, ICAO: GUCY), Conakry, Guinea to Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB), with stopovers at Cadjehoun Airport (IATA: COO, ICAO: DBBB), Benin, Kufra Airport (IATA: AKF, ICAO: HLKF), Libya and a final stopover at Beirut International Airport (IATA: BEY, ICAO: OLBA).
On the 25th of December 2003, the Boeing 727-223 operating the flight struck a building and crashed into the Bight of Benin while the plane was rolling for takeoff from Cotonou, the crash killed 141 people, the crash of Flight 141 is the deadliest crash in Benin's aviation history.
At 13:58pm local time, the flight crew applied takeoff thrust to the aircrafts three engines, a few seconds later the brakes were released, the first officer was pushing the nose of the airplane down and the captain was observing the airspeed of the plane, the aircraft then reached V1 (At this point they should takeoff, as it's longer safe to stop on the runway) and then it subsequently reached its VR speed (Rotation speed, this is when the crew pull back on the noise and the plane lifts off into the air), an input from 5 degrees nose down to 10 degrees nose up was made by the First Officer in a span of two seconds, the nose of the aircraft remained constant and the speed continued to increase.
The aircraft managed to lift off at 13:59:07pm local time for a negligible altitude, realising that they were going to run out of runway, the Captain urged the First Officer to pull up harder, at 13:59:11pm local time the aircraft struck the localiser antenna at the end of the runway, the main landing gear impacted the localiser building, which caused the buildings roof to fly for 9 meters from the point the gear impacted the building, the right main lading gear detached, the aircraft then impacted the airport's concrete boundary fence, the plane then slid and then struck a drain located after the boundary fence, the collision damaged the landing gear and part of the aircraft's wing, which the separated from the fuselage, the aircraft broke into three parts; the cockpit, the fuselage and the tail of the aircraft, all three parts ended up in the sea.
The summary of the crash was failure to takeoff due to aircraft overload as a result of poor management.
