Angolan Air Force EMB-120 crash
National Air Force of Angola Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia · Possible pilot error, aggravated by a stall, which caused the impact
From Albano Machado Airport, Angola to Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (LAD)
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
- 17 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 6
- 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
- 6
- 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
- Military
Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia
- Aircraft type
- Embraer EMB-120
- 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
- T-500
- Operator
- National Air Force of Angola
- Onboard fatalities
- 17
- Route
- From Albano Machado Airport, AngolaTo Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (LAD)
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
On 14 September 2011 at 12:00 local time, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia (registration T-500) of the National Air Force of Angola crashed during take-off at Albano Machado airport in the city of Huambo, on a military flight to Quatro de Fevereiro airport, in the African country of Angola. The aircraft broke into two parts and began to burn. Seventeen of the 23 passengers died in the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del EMB-120 de la Fuerza Aérea de Angola” (revision 174057280, 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 EMB-120 de la Fuerza Aérea de Angola
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 174057280 · 2026-06-22 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q11679632
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente del EMB-120 de la Fuerza Aérea de Angola" (page 4856486, revision 174057280), 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 armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.