On 19 December 1994, the Boeing 707-3F9C flying the route suffered an in-flight fire and crashed into a marshland near Kiri Kasama, Hadejia LGA, Nigeria.

At the time of the accident, the aircraft had 2.5 hours of fuel left and was carrying approximately 35 tons of cargo.

[2] The aircraft was scheduled to ferry 13 empty cargo pallets to be filled at Jeddah then returned to Kano.

The captain nearly cancelled the flight until arrangements were made for seven more cargo pallets to be added.

After being handed a fire extinguisher they applied it to the pallet and when they returned they were breathing heavily.

The flight engineer started a radio transmission to the airline at 18:04:57 UTC that ended suddenly at 18:05:04, the same time the cockpit voice recordings stopped.

The two survivors (the captain and flight engineer) both reported that the first explosion tripped the autopilot and the aircraft rocked sharply.