Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation McDonnell Douglas MD-82 accident
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 · Accident
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's date and aircraft involved. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA10WA044
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Narrative disagrees
- Aircraft type
- McDonnell Douglas MD-82
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 9Q-CAB
- Operator
- Compagnie Africaine d"Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On November 19, 2010, about 0900 UTC, 9Q-CAB, an MD-80 operated by Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation, a domestic scheduled passenger flight, overran runway 36 during landing and struck obstacles at Goma International Airport, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time. There were 117 persons aboard, and 20 passengers were injured. The airplane was destroyed. There was no fire. The flight originated at Kinshasa, DRC.
The investigation is being conducted by the Congo Ministry of Transport. The NTSB has designated a U.S. Accredited Representative under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of design/manufacture.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DCA10WA044
- Event ID
- 20100405X34742
- Case number
- DCA10WA044
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 1bca1f11df9e0bfd68a89f5d0f3fc76467feb39b27f474ec2fe1cf12201312a7; retrieved 2026-09-15T13:49:11.463Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, the case's own dates and an independent record, which together establish these values: date, aircraft model, registration, damage. The record's date (19 April 2009) comes before its own fiscal-2010 case (DCA10WA044) and the narrative's ("November 19, 2010") after the record was opened (5 April 2010). The Aviation Safety Network (asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/321400) and Wikipedia date the Goma overrun of MD-82 9Q-CAB, Flight 3711 from Kinshasa, 19 November 2009. The narrative names the aircraft, "9Q-CAB, an MD-80"; the Aviation Safety Network gives the variant, an MD-82 (DC-9-82). The narrative gives the registration, 9Q-CAB. The narrative states "The airplane was destroyed."