2025 DHC-5 crash in Somalia
Trident Aviation De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo · Under investigation
From Dhobley Airport, to Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA25WA167
- 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
- Preliminary · AAIB preliminary report
- Event fatalities
- 5 · 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
- Not recorded
De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo
- Aircraft type
- de Havilland DHC-5
- 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
- 5Y-RBA
- Operator
- Trident Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From Dhobley Airport,To Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ)
- 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
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown or undetermined
- 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.
Documented · Crash site as stated in the Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation of the Federal Republic of Somalia preliminary report. No uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
The Trident Aviation DHC-5 crash occurred on 22 March 2025, after a Kenyan-registered De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo cargo aircraft operated by Trident Aviation crashed at Ceel Xabaaloow, 24 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, Somalia. All five crew members died in the accident. All of them were Kenyan citizens.
Accident
The aircraft was en route from Dhobley Airport to Aden Adde International Airport, in the Somali capital, after delivering supplies to African Union forces. The aircraft suffered a technical failure and lost contact with air traffic control after taking off from Dhobley airport at approximately 5:43 p.m. local time. The wreckage of the aircraft was subsequently discovered by emergency teams of the National Intelligence and Security Agency at Ceel Xabaalbow, near the Jasiira settlement in Mogadishu. According to the Somali Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA), all five crew members on board died. Their bodies were recovered and transferred to Mogadishu.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del DHC-5 en Somalia de 2025” (revision 173613307, 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
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente del DHC-5 en Somalia de 2025
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 173613307 · 2026-05-24 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q133464921
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA25WA167
- Event ID
- 20250328199930
- Case number
- DCA25WA167
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente del DHC-5 en Somalia de 2025" (page 11156079, revision 173613307), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case DCA25WA167 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date; matches the Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation of the Federal Republic of Somalia preliminary report
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- NTSB record DCA25WA167: Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation of the Federal Republic of Somalia preliminary report; matches the Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation of the Federal Republic of Somalia preliminary report
- 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 DCA25WA167
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A commercial cargo operator's aircraft returning after delivering supplies to African Union forces: a cargo flight for hire by an air transport company. The article: "cargo aircraft operated by Trident Aviation"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities; matches the Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation of the Federal Republic of Somalia preliminary report
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "2025 DHC-5 crash in Somalia" and NTSB case DCA25WA167, matched by the same aircraft registration 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.
- Checked against the Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation of the Federal Republic of Somalia preliminary report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, crash-site coordinates, fatalities, registration, operator, departure, destination and damage. Not checked: place, flight number, aircraft type, type of operation and ground fatalities.