ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326146
| Date: | Thursday 21 December 1989 |
| Time: | 09:05 |
| Type: |  IRMA/Britten-Norman BN-2A-9 Islander |
| Owner/operator: | Aviation Sans Frontières |
| Registration: | F-OGSM |
| MSN: | 688 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1973 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | near Aweil -
 South Sudan
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Ambulance |
| Departure airport: | Aweil Airport (HSAW) |
| Khartoum-Civil Airport (KRT/HSSS) |
Shot down using a 9K32 Strela-2 shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missile (also known as SA-7). The BN-2 had received takeoff clearance and had just departed from Aweil. It crashed 800 m from the runway.
The Sudanese government accused the SPLA (People's Liberation Army Sudan) of downing the airplane. The SPLA has denied being involved and in turn, accused the government of Sudan.
Sources:
Aviation Sans Frontières
BAAA-ACRO
Thomas Brügge
Association française des Victimes du Terrorisme
Location
Images:
photo (c) François-Christophe Richardier
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