Aero Service Unknown aircraft accident
Accident
From N'simalen airport, Yaoundé, Cameroon to Yangadou, Sangha Department, Republic of the Congo
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Event
- NTSB case
- DCA10WA070
- 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
- Preliminary · Commission d'Enquête Technique interim report
- API-reported fatalities
- 11 · all aircraft and ground Possible conflict
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- 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
Unknown aircraft
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Aero Service
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From N'simalen airport, Yaoundé, CameroonTo Yangadou, Sangha Department, Republic of the Congo
- 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 June 20, 2010, about 0900 UTC, a CASA C-212 airplane, TN-AFA, crashed under unknown circumstances near Dima, Republic of Congo (ROC). The 2 crew and 11 passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was destroyed. The chartered flight was en route from Yaounde, Cameroon to Yangadou, ROC.
The investigation is being conducted by the Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile, Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the State of manufacture of the engine, a US Accredited Representative has been assigned. Please refer all questions about the accident to:
Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile B.P. 128 Brazzaville, Congo
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DCA10WA070
- Event ID
- 20100623X13907
- Case number
- DCA10WA070
- 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 local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 863da7f2f39200e53a3ba5d3559a58e255baf2782f9729029de327e609f5bf9e; retrieved 2026-09-13T20:54:00.370Z.
- Checked against the Commission d'Enquête Technique, Ministère des Transports, de l'Aviation Civile et de la Marine Marchande, République du Congo (report now published by BEA Congo) interim report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same fatalities, operator and damage. Taken from the report: ground fatalities, departure and destination. Shown unchanged where the report gives another value or wording: date (shown 2010-06-20; report 2010-06-19); registration (shown Unknown; report TN-AFA). Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type and type of operation.