| Date: | Thursday 12 February 1998 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Antonov An-32B |
| Owner/operator: | Al Quwwat al-Jawwiya As-Sudaniya (Sudanese Air Force) |
| Registration: | 7744 |
| MSN: | |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 26 / Occupants: 57 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Nasir Airport -
 South Sudan
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Malakal Airport (MAK/HSSM) |
| Nasir Airport (HSNA) |
The Antonov landed at Nasir, but overshot the runway, plunging into the Sobat River. First Vice President al-Zubair Muhammad Saleh and several other government officials were killed in the accident.
The wreckage was still extant on the river bank in 2012.
Sources:
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