Date:	Tuesday 7 April 1992
Time:
Type:	Antonov An-24RV
Owner/operator:	Air Bissau
Registration:	J5-GBE
MSN:	77310810
Year of manufacture:	1977
Engine model:	Ivchenko AI-24VT
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 13
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	100 km SE of Maaten al-Sarra -   Libya
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Khartoum-Civil Airport (KRT/HSSS)
Destination airport:	Tunis-Carthage Airport (TUN/DTTA)

Narrative:
Force landed in the desert when it ran into a violent sandstorm. Yasir Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was one of the surviving passengers.

Flight International
Scramble 156
Scramble 163
Soviet Transports
NRC Handelsblad 08.04.1992

photo (c) Karl Krämer, via Werner Fischdick; Athens-Athinai Airport (ATH); June 1989

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