Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 27 APR 1993 |
| Type: | Antonov 32 |
| Operator: | Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Air Force (DRAAF) |
| Registration: | registration unknown |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Ivchenko AI-20 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 76 / Occupants: 76 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Tashqurghan (Afghanistan)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Kabul-Khwaja Rawash Airport (KBL/OAKB), Afghanistan |
| Mazar-I-Sharif Airport (MZR/OAMS), Afghanistan |
Crashed in mountainous terrain in poor weather.
Sources:
» Flight International 6-12/4/94(35)
» NRC Handelsblad 30.4.1993
» Soviet Transports (1994)
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Kabul-Khwaja Rawash Airport to Mazar-I-Sharif Airport as the crow flies is 297 km (186 miles).
Distance from Kabul-Khwaja Rawash Airport to Mazar-I-Sharif Airport as the crow flies is 297 km (186 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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