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2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident information


DHL Flight 209
OO-DLL, the A300 involved in the accident, photographed in June 2003
Attempted shootdown
Date22 November 2003 (2003-11-22)
SummaryMissile attack leading to loss of hydraulics
SiteBaghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq
Aircraft
Aircraft typeAirbus A300B4-203F
OperatorDHL Express
RegistrationOO-DLL
Flight originBaghdad International Airport
Baghdad, Iraq
DestinationBahrain International Airport
Muharraq, Bahrain
Occupants3
Crew3
Fatalities0
Injuries0
Survivors3 (all)

On 22 November 2003, shortly after takeoff from Baghdad, Iraq, an Airbus A300B2-200F cargo plane, registered OO-DLL and owned by the Belgian division of European Air Transport (doing business as DHL Express), was struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile while on a scheduled flight to Muharraq, Bahrain.[1] Severe wing damage resulted in a fire and complete loss of hydraulic flight control systems. Because outboard left wing fuel tank 1A was full at takeoff, no fuel-air vapour explosion occurred. Liquid jet fuel dropped away as 1A disintegrated. Inboard fuel tank 1 was pierced and leaking.[2]

Returning to Baghdad, the three-man crew made an injury-free landing of the seriously damaged A300, using differential engine thrust as the only pilot input. This was despite major damage to a wing, total loss of hydraulic control, a faster-than-safe landing speed, and a ground path that veered off the runway surface and onto unprepared ground.[3]

Paris Match reporter Claudine Vernier-Palliez accompanied a disbanded Fedayeen unit on their strike mission against the EAT aircraft.[4]

Sara Daniel, a French weekly newsmagazine journalist, claimed receipt, from an unknown source, of a video that showed Iraqi insurgents (belonging to IAI), faces concealed, firing a missile at the EAT A300.[5][6][7] Daniel was researching a feature about Iraqi resistance groups, but she denied any specific knowledge of the people who carried out the attack, despite being present at the moment of attack.[6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference asn was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Great escape". Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Air Crash Investigators"
  4. ^ "Voici le commando qui a touché l'Airbus", Claudine Vernier-Palliez, Paris Match, N° 2845 – 27 Novembre 2003
  5. ^ "Tape purports to show missile attack on cargo jet". 25 November 2003.
  6. ^ a b Daniel, Sara. Voyage to a Stricken Land. Arcade Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1559707852, pg. 77
  7. ^ Nance, Malcolm (2014). The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003–2014. CRC Press. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-1498706896.

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