ADC Airlines Flight 86

ADC Airlines Flight 86

A Boeing 727 of ADC Airlines
Accident summary
Date	7 November 1996
Summary	Pilot error (mis-handling induced by ATC error and TCAS warning)
Site	Ejirin[1]
Passengers	134[1]
Crew	10[1]
Fatalities	144[1]
Survivors	0[1]
Aircraft type	Boeing 727–231[1]
Operator	ADC Airlines[1]
Registration	5N-BBG[1]
Flight origin	Port Harcourt Airport[1]
Destination	Lagos Airport[1]

ADC Airlines Flight 86 was a Nigerian domestic flight operated by ADC Airlines from Port Harcourt to Lagos. On 7 November 1996 the crew of the Boeing 727-200 operating the flight lost control of the aircraft while avoiding a mid-air collision on approach; the aircraft crashed inverted at a very high speed, killing all 144 passengers and crew on board.^[1][2]

Accident

Flight 86 was en route to Lagos airport at flight level (FL) 240 (approximately 24,000 ft (7,300 m) altitude). At the same time an aircraft operated by Triax was on its way from Lagos to Enugu at FL160. The Lagos Air Traffic Controller cleared the crew of Flight 86 to descend, but erroneously thought that he had earlier cleared Flight 86 to descend to 10,000 ft (3,000 m) and that it was below the Triax aircraft. The descent from FL240 caused Flight 86 to conflict with the Triax flight at FL160. The traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) sounded an alert but when the crew took evasive action they overcompensated and it rolled too far; the pilots lost control and within sixteen seconds the aircraft was upside down and diving towards the ground at near-Mach 1 speed. The inverted aircraft disintegrated on impact near Imota (Ejirin) at 17:05 local time.^[1]

References

1. "ADC Airlines Flight 86". 20 November 2008. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
2. "ADC 727 Crash". Flight International. 13–19 November 1996. p. 6. (misreports registration as 5N-BBF)

External links

• Flight 86 at Airdisaster.com
• A picture of the 727 involved in the crash