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This plane crash takes us to the African country of South Sudan, which is located next to the following countries: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE SHOOT DOWN AND A PLANE CRASH.
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Pictured above is a similar type of missile that was involved in this shoot down.
On the 16th of August 1986 a Sudan Airways Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M was performing a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Malakal (in present South Sudan) to Khartoum in Sudan, when it was shot down by the SPLA militants. All 60 people on board the aircraft were killed. As of February 2024, the shootdown remains the deadliest incident involving a Fokker F-27 and the deadliest aviation incident in South Sudan.
During the Second Sudanese Civil War, on the 5th of August 1986, the SPLA militants announced they would shoot down all unauthorized military or civilian aircraft, claiming that the government was using them to transport soldiers and weapons. Approximately at the time of the 1986 shootdown the militants singled out one humanitarian charter company, alleging that the company had a government contract "to spy on and take aerial photographs of" rebel operations. In May 1986 the militants brought down a passenger plane, killing all 13 aboard.
The aircraft involved in the August 1986 shootdown had a serial number 10277. It made it's maiden flight in 1965 and accrued a total of 25,702 airframe hours and 19,290 flight cycles.
Shortly after takeoff from Malakal the aircraft was brought down by a Soviet-made Strela 2 surface-to-air missile, fired by a Shilluk contingent of the SPLA. According to contemporary press reports, the missile was captured from the Sudanese army.
The summary of the crash was that it was shot-down by SPLA militants.
