Angola Air Charter Boeing 707 accident near Lagos
Boeing 707-328C · Controlled flight into terrain
From Ostend-Bruges International Airport (OST) to Luanda Airport, Angola
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
- 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
- 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
Boeing 707-328C
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 707
- 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
- D2-TOV
- Operator
- Angola Air Charter
- Onboard fatalities
- 6
- Route
- From Ostend-Bruges International Airport (OST)To Luanda Airport, Angola
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 Angola Air Charter Boeing 707 accident near Lagos occurred on 21 July 1988 on an international cargo flight of the airline Angola Air Charter from Ostend via Lagos to Luanda. On approach to Lagos Airport, the Boeing 707-328C operating the flight, with the aircraft registration D2-TOV, crashed, and all six occupants of the aircraft died.
Accident sequence
The aircraft was operating a cargo flight from Ostend via Lagos to Luanda. The pilots received clearance to land on runway 19R of Lagos-Murtala Muhammed Airport. On approach to the airport, the aircraft collided with the ground ten kilometres from the runway. All six occupants were killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Boeing 707 der Angola Air Charter bei Lagos” (revision 255768931, 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 Angola Air Charter bei Lagos
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 255768931 · 2025-05-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q134360210
- 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 einer Boeing 707 der Angola Air Charter bei Lagos" (page 13443363, revision 255768931), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An international cargo flight by the airline Angola Air Charter: an air carrier flight. The article: "on an international cargo flight of the airline Angola Air Charter from Ostend via Lagos to Luanda"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.