F50, vicinity Nairobi Kenya, 2014

F50, vicinity Nairobi Kenya, 2014

Summary

On 2 July 2014, a Fokker 50 fully loaded - and probably overloaded - with a cargo of qat crashed into a building and was destroyed soon after its night departure from Nairobi after failing to climb due to a left engine malfunction which was evident well before V1. The Investigation attributed the accident to the failure of the crew to reject the takeoff after obvious malfunction of the left engine soon after they had set takeoff power which triggered a repeated level 3 Master Warning that required an automatic initiation of a rejected takeoff.

Description

On 2 July 2014, a Fokker 50 (5Y-CET) being operated by Skyward International on a non-scheduled cargo flight from Nairobi to Mogadishu crashed into a building shortly after takeoff from Nairobi in night VMC and was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire. Both pilots and two other unspecified crew members also on board were killed.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Department of the Kenyan Government Department of Transport. Relevant data were downloaded from the aircraft FDR and CVR and was also available from the airport surface movement radar at a resolution greater than that available to the runway controller in real time.

It was noted that the 54 year-old Captain, who was PF for the flight, had a total of 14,531 flying hours experience which included 6,821 hours on type in command. He had flown about 77 hours in the accident aircraft in the 60 days prior to the accident and had previous experience on DHC8, F27 and LET 410 aircraft. The First Officer had a total of 823 hours which included 513 hours on type.

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