The Boeing 737-200, registration TJ-CBE, crashed after it lost control near Douala, Cameroon.

44-year-old First Officer Claude Emile Lombo had 5,850 hours of total flight experience with 4,317 of them on the Boeing 737.

The pilots called air traffic control saying that they had landing gear problems and the crew elected to abort the approach.

Then the aircraft went into a steep dive and crashed 6 kilometres (3.7 mi; 3.2 nmi) short of the runway in a mangrove swamp.

1 to be the following: The probable cause of the accident is a loss of control during a go-around attempt made during a maneuver to reach the runway with degraded performance Seriously contributing to this: