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The aircraft involved was an Ilyushin Il-76 registered as EX-76011 with serial number 0013428831. It was manufactured in 1981 and was previously operated by New Way Cargo Airlines. There were five crew members on board, two Russians and three Sudanese, according to RT , the pilot was Anton Selivanets. [ 5 ]
Russia stated that the plane was shot down by Ukraine while it was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) captured during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as six crew members and three guards, and that the prisoners of war were to be exchanged in a swap.
The crew decided to make an emergency landing. Before landing, the plane circled over the meadows. [6] At 3:18 PM, the plane made a hard landing on the ground, damaging power lines. The plane crashed and caught fire. There is no significant damage on the ground after the crash. [7] Three people died immediately after the crash.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it ...
On 21 May 2021 the Criminal Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court acquitted Nazarov. [19] During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine at the Battle of Vasylkiv, Lieutenant general Valerii Zaluzhnyi and others on social media referenced the 2014 Ukrainian Il-76 shootdown after reports emerged that two Russian Il-76 were shot down on 26 ...
On 12 March 2024, an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashed in Russia's Ivanovo Oblast. [1] Fifteen people were on board when the aircraft crashed; eight crew and seven passengers. [2] No survivors were found. Russian sources said one of its engines caught fire and the plane crashed soon after takeoff. [3]
The Ilyushin Il-76 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-76; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-12.
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