Flight To Conakry

UTA Flight 141 was a charter flight operated by Union des Transports Aériens de Guinée.

On 25 December 2003 the airplane crashed in the Bight of Benin, killing 151 of the 163 occupants, most of them Lebanese.

Flight 141 was flown on 3X-GDO, an ex-American Airlines Boeing 727-223, on the day of the crash. The airliner's route was Conakry International Airport - Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport - Kufra Airport - Beirut International Airport. Many of the passengers were workers who were flying back home to Lebanon to enjoy the holidays with their families.

On takeoff from Cotonou, the aircraft ran off the end of the runway, impacting several ground structures including an occupied outbuilding and crashed on the ocean beach because it was severely overloaded with passengers and cargo and the aircraft's center of gravity was well out of limits, according to the accident report, which was written by the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile, the aviation investigation agency of France.

Exact passenger numbers are impossible to determine, as it is thought that there were more passengers aboard than were listed on the manifest.

Some newspaper reports have led many to suspect that the airplane used for this flight was, in fact, a 727-223 designated N844AA that had disappeared about one year earlier, along with flight engineer Ben Charles Padilla. This rumor turned out to be unfounded.

Some passengers who survived the initial crash died while being hospitalized.

References

1. ^ "report translation 3x-o031225a." Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile. Retrieved on 9 June 2009.
2. ^ "Plane crash in Benin kills at least 111." CBC . Friday 26 December 2003. Retrieved on 9 June 2009.

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