All Reported Lost In Angolan King Air Downing | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-10.06.25

AirborneNextGen-
10.07.25

Airborne-Unlimited-10.08.25

Airborne-FlightTraining-10.09.25

AirborneUnlimited-10.03.25

Mon, Jan 21, 2008

All Reported Lost In Angolan King Air Downing

Bad Weather Hampered Landing Effort

Angolan rescue crews have finished retrieving the bodies of the 13 victims from a Beech King Air B200 that crashed into the mountains of southern Angola, Africa, on Saturday.

Early reports indicated as many as 25 people were killed in the crash, but the flight manifest confirmed 13 passengers aboard the Beechcraft King Air 200 (type shown above), reports Agence-France Presse.

The plane was flying from the Angolan capital of Luanda to the southern city of Huambo, approximately 280 miles away, and encountered bad weather while preparing to land.

Januario Silvestre Pena, director of the ENANA airport authority company, told RNA radio the weather in Huambo at the time of the crash was "absolutely terrible" and that the plane "crashed straight into the mountain."

The King Air was owned by private airline Giro Globo, which operates charter flights in Angola. Among the dead was the owner of the plane, Valentin Anoes, 46, who was a senior member of Angola's ruling party, his son, and two Portuguese businessmen, Vasco Mendes de Almeida and Nuno Marques.

An inquiry has been opened into determining the cause of the crash.

Angola, a former Portuguese colony, is struggling to upgrade airports, bridges, roads and other infrastructure devastated by a 27-year civil war that ended in 2002.

The current economic boom, fueled by oil wealth, has created a growing demand for air travel throughout the country and has strained the capacity of the state-owned airline TAAG.

The southwest African country has a dismal record in air safety, primarily due to poor maintenance.

As ANN reported, a TAAG 737-200 crashed last June in the northern city of M'banza Congo, killing two passengers and injuring many others. That crash caused the European Union to place TAAG on its blacklist, prohibiting the airline from flying to European destinations.

FMI: www.angola.org/

Advertisement

More News

Airborne 10.03.25: Phantom 3500 Buy, ‘Chinese Military Company’, NOTAM Redesign

Also: Lufthansa Chops 4000, FlyNow eCopter, Pilatus PC-12 PRO, USMC Buys 99 CH-53Ks Otto Aerospace announced that Flexjet will be its first fleet customer and its launch customer f>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (10.05.25): Terrain/Obstruction Alert

Terrain/Obstruction Alert A safety alert issued by ATC to aircraft under their control if ATC is aware the aircraft is at an altitude which, in the controller's judgment, places th>[...]

Airborne Affordable Flyers 10.02.25: MOSAIC Start Date, AFE25 Tickets, ePulitzer

Also: Bristell Receives Part 23, Sonex Highwing Webinar, AV-30-C Update, MOSAIC Consultancy The GA community is eagerly anticipating the date that marks the beginning of a new era >[...]

NTSB Final Report: Zodiac CH 650B

The Airplane Ballooned About 10 Ft Above The Runway When It Encountered A Wind Gust Analysis: The pilot was conducting takeoffs and landings in the airplane at the time of the acci>[...]

Classic Aero-TV: RDD Enterprises' LX-7 - Taking The Lancair to a Whole New Level

From 2019 (YouTube Edition): Company Updates Its Program For Highly Modifying Lancair IV-P Airframes RDD Enterprises, a company that was created to modify Lancair IV-P airplanes in>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2025 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC