Aéro-Service

History

Fleet

Accidents and incidents

• In June 1981, an Aéro-Service Britten-Norman Islander suffered a crash landing and was subsequently written off.
• On 11 March 1994, an Aéro-Service Swearingen Merlin was damaged beyond repair in a crash landing at Pointe Noire Airport, following a chartered flight from Port-Gentil with 4 passengers and 2 crew members on board. Upon landing approach, the landing gear failed to deploy, and the pilots did not manage to execute a go-around, but belly-landed on the runway.
• On 23 December 2005, an Aéro-Service Antonov An-24, which was leased from Pecotox Air, was substantially damaged when it ran off the runway upon landing.
• On 25 January 2008, an Aéro-Service Antonov An-12BP suffered a brake failure whilst taxiing at Pointe Noire Airport, so that it ran into a parked Boeing 727-247. Both aircraft were damaged beyond economic repair.
• On 19 June 2010 at ca 10:00 local time, an Aéro-Service CASA C-212 Aviocar crashed near Djoum, Cameroon, killing all nine passengers and the two crew members on board..
• On 30 November 2012, an Aéro-Service Ilyushin Il-76T on a cargo flight from Pointe Noire to Brazzaville crashed during landing short of runway 5L at Maya-Maya Airport in Brazzaville in bad weather, in a residential area. All six crew members, five of them from Armenia, one police officer on board the aircraft, and 26 people on the ground were killed, and 14 people on the ground were injured.