Dassault Falcon Service Flight 26J
Dassault Falcon 900EX · Collision with a person on the runway
From Maya-Maya International Airport (BZV) to Ndjili International Airport (FIH)
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
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- 1
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 4
- 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
Dassault Falcon 900EX
- Aircraft type
- Dassault Falcon 900
- 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
- F-HDLJ
- Operator
- Dassault Falcon Service
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Maya-Maya International Airport (BZV)To Ndjili International Airport (FIH)
Cause areas
- Environmental issues › Operating environment
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Ndjili International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
Dassault Falcon Service Flight 26J (flight number: DSO26J, callsign: DASSAULT 26J) was a charter flight from Brazzaville Airport in the Republic of the Congo to Ndjili Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 14 September 2013, at the end of which, during the landing in Ndjili, a person on the runway was struck and killed.
Accident sequence
After the flight from Brazzaville to Kinshasa N’Djili had proceeded without any particular incident, the aircraft landed at Ndjili Airport at 18:45 UTC. While it was rolling along runway 06 at high speed, its wingtip struck a man who was on the runway. The pilots taxied the aircraft to the parking position and informed air traffic control of the incident. When the rescue services arrived at the accident site, they found that the wing had decapitated the man. They could only pronounce him dead.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The causes of the accident were determined to be the incursion of a third party onto the runway owing to the absence of an effective ground traffic control system, and inadequate lighting (navigation aids) at N’Djili International Airport.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Dassault-Falcon-Service-Flug 26J” (revision 269952681, 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: Dassault-Falcon-Service-Flug 26J
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 269952681 · 2026-08-24 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q138307583
- 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 "Dassault-Falcon-Service-Flug 26J" (page 13776443, revision 269952681), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: ground fatalities
- 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.