Air Memphis Boeing 707 accident in Mombasa
Boeing 707-336C · The Air Memphis Boeing 707 accident in Mombasa occurred on 10 March 1998
From Mwanza Airport, Tanzania to Cairo International Airport (CAI)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA98WA028
- 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
- 6 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- 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
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Unknown
Boeing 707-336C
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 707
- Category
- Airplane
- 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
- SU-PBA
- Operator
- Air Memphis
- Onboard fatalities
- 6
- Route
- From Mwanza Airport, TanzaniaTo Cairo International Airport (CAI)
- 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
- Part 129: Foreign
- 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 · Estimated position: Moi International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The Air Memphis Boeing 707 accident in Mombasa occurred on 10 March 1998. On that day a Boeing 707-336C crashed on take-off from Mombasa Airport in Kenya. After lifting off, the aircraft collided with objects and was completely destroyed, killing all six people on board.
Accident sequence
The take-off from Mombasa Moi Airport took place at 16:31. After taking off from runway 03, the aircraft flew into the approach lighting at the end of the runway. Next the aircraft flew into a hill, rolled onto its side and crashed to the ground. The aircraft broke apart and caught fire.
Runway 03 at Mombasa is 10,991 feet long, but at the time of the accident the first 2,600 ft of runway length were unusable because of reconstruction works.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Boeing 707 der Air Memphis in Mombasa” (revision 251248748, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer Boeing 707 der Air Memphis in Mombasa
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 251248748 · 2024-12-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q90500505
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA98WA028
- Event ID
- 20001211X09651
- Case number
- DCA98WA028
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Boeing 707 der Air Memphis in Mombasa" (page 11241801, revision 251248748), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case DCA98WA028 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: 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); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA98WA028
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Air Memphis Boeing 707 accident in Mombasa" and NTSB case DCA98WA028, matched by the same aircraft maker and operator, and a matching death toll and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.