2017 Antonov An-12 accident
Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Antonov An-12 · Crashed shortly after takeoff, under investigation
From Ndjili International Airport (FIH) to Kavumu Airport, Bukavu
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
- 9 · 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
- Military
Antonov An-12
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-12
- 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
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 9
- Route
- From Ndjili International Airport (FIH)To Kavumu Airport, Bukavu
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 2017 Antonov An-12 accident occurred on 30 September 2017, when an Antonov An-12 aircraft of the Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo crashed shortly after takeoff in Kinshasa with 9 people on board.
Accident
The aircraft had just taken off for the Kivu region, in the east, carrying "several dozen people", according to an airport source. For unexplained reasons, it lost control and was invisible to the control tower; the aircraft crashed in the commune of Nsele, in the Kinshasa metropolitan area, a few minutes after taking off.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The accident occurred due to technical errors, according to the Ministry of Media and Communication, which said that the investigation was open to learn more details about the incident. According to sources at N'djili Airport, the aircraft's mission was to provide reinforcements to Congolese soldiers in Bukavu and it was carrying ammunition and two vehicles.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do Antonov An-12 em 2017” (revision 58914471, 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
Portuguese Wikipedia article: Acidente do Antonov An-12 em 2017
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 58914471 · 2020-07-31 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q48893420
- 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
- pt Wikipedia article "Acidente do Antonov An-12 em 2017" (page 5536917, revision 58914471), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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 Portuguese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.