Investigators have revealed that a plane carrying 37 people narrowly missed hitting central Africa’s highest mountain in early May.
Flight AF953 was travelling from Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to Douala, Cameroon’s largest city and commercial capital, when it flew into bad weather on May 2.
While avoiding storm clouds, the plane came close to hitting the 4,040-metre (13,254 feet) Mount Cameroon.
French accident investigators BEA have now opened an investigation.
The incident came just weeks after a Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps while travelling from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
The German airline plane was carrying more than 140 passengers.
Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 27, locked the plane’s pilot out of the cockpit before he took the plane on its deadly descent.
Investigation launched after passenger jet nearly crashes into mountain
