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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 ]
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. It was developed to deliver heavy machinery to remote and poorly ...
With the large fleet of both civil and military Il-76 aircraft still in operation, a potentially large market exists for engine replacement. An example of such a modified version is the Il-76MD-90 . The PS-90A-76 is the standard on the newly built, modernized versions of the Il-76 , such as the Il-76MD-90A and the Il-76MF .
On 11 December 1988, an Ilyushin Il-76M aircraft crashed. Operated by the Soviet Air Force , the flight participated in relief efforts after an earthquake struck Armenia on 7 December. The aircraft crashed into a mountainside during an attempt to land at Leninakan , Armenia (then part of the Soviet Union), killing 77 of the 78 occupants on board.
The Il-76 is a military transport aircraft designed to airlift troops, cargo, military equipment and weapons. It usually has a crew of five, and can carry up to 90 passengers.
The Ilyushin Il-76 took off from Runway 12 at Irkutsk International Airport not long after sunrise at 06:18 local time, on a mission to fight forest fires. The last communication with the aircraft was sixteen minutes later at 06:34, when it was flying above the Bayandayevsky District in a north-easterly direction at an altitude of 9,900 feet ...
The Ilyushin Il-76 was “performing a scheduled flight” to an airfield near the border when it was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile system, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
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]