Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:55:05 +0200
Subject: ASN Accident Digest 2003-16 Metro II Ryan Blake Air Charter

19 JUL 2003 Swearingen SA.226TC Metro II ZS-OYI Ryan Blake Air Charter at
Mount Kenya 14(14)

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ASN ACCIDENT DIGEST 2003-16
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Date: 19 JUL 2003
Time: ca 18.00 local time
Type: Swearingen SA.226TC Metro II
Operator: Ryan Blake Air Charter
Registration: ZS-OYI
Msn / C/n: TC-349
Year built: 1980
Engines: 2 Garrett TPE331-3UW-303G
Crew: 2 fatalities / 2 on board
Passengers: 12 fatalities / 12 on board
Total: 14 fatalities / 14 on board
Location: Mount Kenya (Kenya)
Phase: Cruise
Nature: Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Nairobi-Wilson Airport (WIL)
Destination airport: Samburu national park
Remarks:
The Swearingen Metro plane, carrying 12 American tourists and two South
African crew members, departed Nairobi-Wilson Airport at 15.58h for a
flight to the Samburu national park. The flight plan was to allow the crew
to fly round Mount Kenya before landing at a private airstrip in the game
park. The airplane crashed into the eastern slope of Point Lenana (16,450
feet), which is the third highest peak of Mount Kenya. The crash site was
located approx. 450ft below the snow-capped top. Debris scattered into the
adjacent valleys of the peak, and then burnt throughout the night.

Source:
SABC, AP, Sunday Nation
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AIRCRAFT PROFILE SWEARINGEN METRO
* Last (civilian) hull-loss accident: 24 DEC 2002 North Flying OY-BPH, at
Aberdeen-Dyce Airport (ABZ) - 0 fatalities
* Last fatal accident: 12 APR 2002 Tadair EC-GKR, at Palma de Mallorca
Airport (PMI), Spain - 2 fatalities
* Total number of hull-losses: 79 losses (72 accidents, 2 other occurrences
and 5 unknown occurrences)
* 2nd worst accident
* Survival rate for all fatal accidents: 12,6% of all occupants survived
fatal accidents
* History of ZS-OYI:
1980 built by Swearingen as N1007N
AUG 1980 delivered to Northern Airlines as VH-EEG
JAN 1982 bought by Teterboro Aircraft Svc as N26583
APR 1982 bought by Compagnie Aérienne du Languedoc as F-GDMR
APR 1988 the airline merged into Air Littoral
JAN 1994 bought by General Aviation Services as N100ED
APR 1994 bought by Air Charters as C-GIQI and leased to Air Montreal
JUL 2000 bought by Ryan Blake Air as ZS-OYI
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AIRLINE PROFILE RYAN BLAKE AIR CHARTER
A private air charter company operating three Swearingen Metro planes.
* Founded: 2000
* 1st airliner hull-loss occurrence for Ryan Blake Air Charter.
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COUNTRY PROFILE KENYA
* Last (civilian) hull-loss accident: 24 JAN 2003 African Commuter Services
Grumman G-159 Gulfstream I at Busia - 3 fatalities
* Last fatal accident: ibid.
* Total number of civil airliner hull-losses since 1945: 20 losses (10 of
which were fatal)
* 2nd worst airliner accident
* Kenya is not yet rated Category in FAA's International Aviation Safety
Assessment Program (IASA)
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2003 SO FAR
* Number of fatal hull-loss airliner accidents : 16 (safety rank since
1950: 2nd safest)
* Number of fatalities: 488 (safety rank since 1950: 18th safest)
(Coverage: fatal, multi engine civil airliner accidents)


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