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Kata Air Transport Flight 007
An Antonov An-32, like the one involved in the crash
Accident
Date11 April 2008 22:15 UTC
SummaryEngine failure
Sitenear Băcioi, Chișinău, Moldova
46°55′38″N 28°53′12″E / 46.92722°N 28.88667°E / 46.92722; 28.88667
Aircraft
Aircraft typeAntonov An-32
OperatorKata Air Transport
RegistrationST-AZL
Flight originVienna International Airport
2nd stopoverChișinău International Airport
KIV/LUKK
3rd stopoverAntalya Airport, Turkey
DestinationKhartoum, Sudan
Passengers0
Crew8
Fatalities8
Injuries0
Survivors0

On 11 April 2008 Kata Air Transport Flight 007, killed eight crew when a departing Sudanese cargo flight to Sudan turned back and crashed short of the runway at Chișinău International Airport.


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

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, but it was later determined that there were four Ukrainian and four Moldovan citizens.

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 vegetable oil.

References

  1. Popeski, Ron (12 April 2008). "Cargo plane crashes after takeoff from Moldova", Reuters
  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
  4. AP report, 12 April 2008.

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