Memorial to UTA Flight 772

Niger / Agadez / Bilma /
 memorial, geoglyph, aircraft crash site
UTA Flight 772 of the French airline, Union des Transports Aériens, was a scheduled flight operating from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, via N'Djamena in Chad, to Paris CDG airport in France. On Tuesday, 19 September 1989, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 (N54629) exploded at its cruising altitude of 10,700 metres (35,100 ft), causing the aircraft to break up over the Sahara Desert near the towns of Bilma and Ténéré in Niger. All 155 passengers and 15 crew members died.

Article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25643103

In the January 2004 the Lybian Dictator Gaddafi felt compelled to give a million dollars in compensation for each of the families of the 170 victims.

googlesightseeing.com/2009/06/15/uta-flight-772-memoria...
www.dc10-uta.org/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTA_Flight_772
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Coordinates:   16°51'53"N   11°57'14"E

Comments

  • It is also called "The Sahara Memorial". The silhouette of the aircraft points towards Paris.
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