ADC Airlines accident near Calabar
BAC One-Eleven 203AE · Runway excursion during landing in heavy rain
From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS) to Calabar Airport, Nigeria
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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 54
- 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
- 10
- 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
BAC One-Eleven 203AE
- Aircraft type
- Bac One Eleven 203
- 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
- 5N-BAA
- Operator
- ADC Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS)To Calabar Airport, Nigeria
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Environmental issues › Operating environment
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The ADC Airlines accident near Calabar occurred on 29 July 1995, when a BAC One-Eleven 203AE of ADC Airlines operating a domestic scheduled flight from Lagos to Calabar crashed after an unstabilised approach to the destination airport in heavy rain and poor visibility. Of the 55 people on board, one passenger was killed in the accident.
Accident sequence
The aircraft was on approach to runway 03 of Calabar Airport. Difficult weather conditions prevailed in the form of heavy rainfall, turbulence and a cloud base of 240 metres. Visibility was limited to 2,800 metres. The final approach was flown unstabilised and the aircraft was not aligned with the runway centreline. On the first touchdown, the left main landing gear made ground contact in the grassy area to the left of the runway. The captain tried to correct the track, but the aircraft veered to the right back onto the runway and overran the end of the runway. The aircraft struck a ditch and came to a stop 1,500 metres further on. One of the engines caught fire after the impact. One crew member was killed in the accident, and ten other occupants were injured.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The accident investigators concluded that the hasty straight-in approach had been poorly planned. They suspected that this was due to the erroneous weather data that had been transmitted to the captain and to the fact that the VOR displayed erroneous parameters.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall der ADC Airlines bei Calabar” (revision 239287921, 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 der ADC Airlines bei Calabar
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 239287921 · 2023-11-20 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q123477832
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall der ADC Airlines bei Calabar" (page 12862620, revision 239287921), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (2)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
- The German article's text gives 29 July 1995; its infobox and cited Aviation Safety Network record give 29 July 1997, used here.