This archive report was first published on 22 December 2019.
On July 2, 2014, a Fokker F50 international cargo flight operated by Skyward International crashed after take-off from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, bound for Aden Adebaba International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia.
According to the AAID report, the probable cause of the accident was the crew's decision to conduct the flight with a known mechanical problem and their failure to abort or reject the takeoff after receiving 27 cautions.
The report reveals that the plane experienced inconsistencies from the beginning of the flight, including taking longer than anticipated to attain take-off speed and barely climbing before reaching a height of about 50 feet above ground level.
Despite receiving audio and visual warnings, the crew continued with the flight, which had a known fault. The report states that there is no evidence that remedial maintenance action was taken from the previous flight, and the issues experienced were not captured in the aircraft's technical log.
Flight recorder data indicated that the alerts had occurred previously, but the AAID was unable to find any evidence that the anomaly was recorded on the technical logbook or that any maintenance actions had been performed in regard to the same.
