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This plane crash takes us to the West African nation of the Ivory Coast, which is located next to the following countries: Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia and Guinea.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft.
Pictured below is the rudder of the aircraft after it crashed.
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Pictured below is the landing gear of the plane after it crashed.
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Kenya Airways Flight 431, registered as 5 Yankee- Bravo Echo November (5Y-BEN), was an international scheduled passenger flight from Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport (IATA: ABJ, ICAO: DIAP), Abidjan, Ivory Coast to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (IATA: NBO, ICAO: HKJK), Nairobi, Kenya, with a scheduled stopover at Mustala Muhammed International Airport (IATA: LOS, ICAO: DNMM), Lagos, Nigeria, the flight was operated by the Kenyan national airline, Kenya Airways.
On the 30th of January 2000, the Airbus A310-300 serving the flight crashed into the sea off the Ivory Coast, shortly after the plane took off from Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport, Abidjan, there were 179 people on board the plane, of whom 169 were passengers, only ten people survived the crash, the crash is the deadliest in Ivory Coast's aviation history, it was the first fatal crash for Kenya Airway and it was also the deadliest crash for Kenya Airways.
The aircraft took off from Abidjan to head for Lagos at 21:08pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), however seconds after the plane took off, when the First Officer requested for the landing gear to be retracted, the stall warning sounded in the cockpit, the landing gear remained down, in response to the warning the crew put the airplane into a controlled descent, the First Officer asked the Captain to silence the warning, the GPWS sounded briefly , though the altimeter set out warnings seconds after the GPWS sounded, which cut off the GPWS warning, the master warning sounded, which indicated that the aircraft was over speeding, at which the Captain shouted "Go up" but the aircraft was descending to quickly to recover, the aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, 2 kilometres east of the airport, off the Ivory Coast, the airframe was completely destroyed by the impact with the ocean.
The summary of the crash was a False stall warning which lead to pilot error.
Below is a video, which explains what happed that night, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.
