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This plane crash takes us to the Asian/ European country of Georgia, which is located next to the following countries: Russia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH AND A PLANE SHOOT DOWN
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Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft that was involved in this crash/ shoot down.
On the 22nd of September 1993, an Orbi Georgian Airways Tupolev Tu-154B aircraft, which was built in 1976 with the registration of 85163 and a factory number of 76 Alpha-163 (76A-163), this plane was flying from Shota Rustaveli International Airport (IATA: TBS, ICAO: UGTB), Tbilisi, Georgia, the plane was carrying civilians and international security forces when it was on approach to it's destination airport of Sukhumi Babushara Airport (IATA: SUI, ICAO: UGSS), Georgia, when the plane was struck by a surface to air missile, the plane crash landed onto the airstrip at the airport; the ensuing fire killed 108 of the 132 people on board the aircraft, which makes it the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Georgia, the media claimed that the flight was carrying refugees, but there was no evidence to back up these claims, another Tupolev Tu-154 was attacked later in the evening but it was able to land safely.
This was apart of the Sukhumi massacre as the Abkhazia blocked troop's supply routes as apart of the war in Abkhazia, in response to the government used Sukhumi Babushara Airport to ferry supplies to troop's, Abkhaz forced attacks on the airport in an attempt to further block the supply routes, during the siege, five civilian airliners were hit by missiles and as a result 136 people were killed in the shoot down of the planes.
The summary of the crash was Shot down by a surface to air missile.