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Kata Air Transport Flight 007, killed eight crew when a departing Sudanese cargo flight to Turkey turned back and crashed short of the runway.

Early reports indicated that the Ukraine-built An-32 "Cline" had engine problems and turned back to Chișinău International Airport, Moldova.[citation needed] The flight from Vienna had refuelled and was bound for Khartoum, Sudan via Antalya, Turkey with a Moldovan crew of eight.[1][2]

The aircraft had undergone maintenance at Chișinău. It crashed at 22:15 local time, or 20:15 UTC. Moldovan authorities requested Russian assistance with the black box records. Novosti reported that the crew was four Russians and four Moldovans,[citation needed] but it was later determined that there were four Ukrainian and four Moldovan citizens.[3]

The aircraft was later announced as belonging to Kata Air Transport of Sudan and as having crashed close to the village of Băcioi, Moldova carrying 2.3 tonnes of fuel.[4]

References

  1. ^ Popeski, Ron (12 April 2008). "Cargo plane crashes after takeoff from Moldova", Reuters [dead link]
  2. ^ "Sudanese plane crashes in Moldova, eight dead". Earth Times. 12 April 2008. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Russian experts to Chisinau to help investigate An-32 crash". 13 April 2008 [dead link]
  4. ^ AP report, 12 April 2008. [dead link]

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