Air Mauritanie Flight 625
Fokker F28 Fellowship · Runway excursion, aggravated by sandstorm
From Nouakchott International Airport, Mauritania to Tidjikja Airport, Mauritania
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 80 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 93
- Survivors
- 13
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 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
- Airline
Fokker F28 Fellowship
- Flight
- MR625
- Aircraft type
- Fokker F28
- 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
- 5T-CLF
- Operator
- Air Mauritanie
- Onboard fatalities
- 80
- Route
- From Nouakchott International Airport, MauritaniaTo Tidjikja Airport, Mauritania
Approximate · Estimated position: Tidjikja Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
Air Mauritanie Flight 625 was a Fokker F28 Fellowship 4000 which crashed on landing at Tidjikja Airport, Mauritania on 1 July 1994 in sandstorm conditions. All four crew and 76 of the 89 passengers were killed in the crash. It remains the deadliest crash involving a Fokker 28 and the deadliest one in Mauritania.
Accident
The aircraft was flying from Nouakchott to Tidjikja. On board were 89 Mauritanian-French nationals returning to see their family and 4 crew members. The landing was performed in a sandstorm. The F28 had made several approaches to the airport before making a heavy landing, which caused the front undercarriage to collapse and the aircraft to slide off the runway, crash into a rocky outcrop and burst into flames. Only 13 passengers survived, all seriously injured, while all four crew members and the remaining 76 passengers died. The crash was the second involving a Fokker aircraft in West Africa in less than a week following the crash of Air Ivoire Flight 777 on 26 June. It also remains the deadliest aviation accident in Mauritania.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Air Mauritanie Flight 625
- Article
- Air Mauritanie Flight 625
- Revision
- 1339310104 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q16002175
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Air Mauritanie Flight 625" (page 41647319, revision 1339310104)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.