Incidents and Accidents
- On 15 April 2008, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122 crashed into a residential and market area of Goma of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 40 people were killed, among them 3 passengers; there were 111 injured, including 40 passengers.
- On 21 June 2010, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 601, operated by McDonnell Douglas MD-82 9Q-COQ burst a tyre on take-off from N'djili Airport. Hydraulic systems and the port engine were damaged and the nose gear failed to lower when the aircraft returned to N'djili. All 110 people on board escaped uninjured. The airline blamed the state of the runway for the accident, but investigators found no fault with the runway.
- On 8 July 2011, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952, a Boeing 727–100, crashed on landing at Kisangani Airport. 74 people were killed whilst others survived the accident with severe burns.
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