Plane crash in Sudan - An-26-100 plane crash that occurred around 8:00 local time while landing near the city of Talodi ( South Kordofan , Sudan ).
| Plane crash in Sudan August 19, 2012 | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| date of | August 19, 2012 |
| Time | 8:00 EAT [1] |
| A place |  Suburb of Talodi , South Kordofan , Sudan [2] |
| Dead | 32 [3] |
| The wounded | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
 An-26-100 (ST-ARL), crashed | |
| Model | An-26-100 [1] |
| Airline | Alfa Airlines [1] |
| Departure point | Khartoum |
| Destination | Talodi |
| Board number | ST-ARL [1] |
| Date of issue | 1974 [4] |
| Passengers | 26 [3] |
| Crew | 6 [3] |
| Dead | 32 [3] |
| Survivors | 0 |
Content
- 1 Circumstances of the disaster
- 2 victims
- 3 Disaster Investigation
- 4 notes
Disaster circumstances
An An-26-100 passenger plane (ST-ARL flight number ) of the private Sudanese airline Alfa Airlines made a charter flight, transporting a government delegation from Khartoum International Airport to the town of Talodi ( South Kordofan ), approximately 595 km from Khartoum [ 1] .
The plane took off from Khartoum at about 6:02 in the morning, and at about 8:00, when landing in a dust storm near Talodi, it could not land the first time and went to the second round, during which it crashed into a mountain and exploded [2 ] [1] .
Victims
Killed all 32 people on board: 26 passengers and 6 crew members [3] .
The passengers of the aircraft were members of the government delegation traveling to participate in the celebration of Uraza Bairam in the state of Southern Kordofan :
- Ghazi Al-Saddiq - Minister for Religious and Waqf Affairs of the Republic of Sudan ( Federal Minister of Guidance and Endowments ) [3] [5] ;
- Majub Abdul-Rahim Tutu ( Mahjoub Abdul-Rahim Tutu ) - State Minister for Youth and Sports ( State Minister at the Ministry of Youth and Sports ) [3] [5] ;
- Eissa Daifalla - State Minister at the Ministry of Tourism, Antiquities and Wildlife [3] [5] ;
- Mekki Ali Balayel (Mekki Ali Balayel ) - the head of the Justice Party ( Leader of the Justice Party ) [3] [6] ;
- other representatives of the political and power circles of Sudan and the film crew of Sudanese television [6] .
The crew included: a citizen of Russia - Gennady Semenov ( commander ) [6] [5] ; Tajik citizen - Hoshim Akram ( navigator ) [7] ; Armenian citizen - Armen Virabyan ( flight engineer ) [8] . The co-pilot was a citizen of Sudan.
| Citizenship | amount passengers | amount crew members | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sudan | 26 | 3 | 29th |
| Russia | 0 | one | one |
| Armenia | 0 | one | one |
| Tajikistan | 0 | one | one |
| Total | 26 | 6 | 32 |
Disaster Investigation
The crash is being investigated by the Sudan Civil Aviation Authority .
On August 24, 2012, the aircraft’s flight recorders were discovered and recovered from the crash site [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hradecky, Simon. Crash: Alfa Airlines AN26 near Talodi on Aug 19th 2012, impacted mountain during go-around . The Aviation Herald (August 24, 2012). Date of treatment August 26, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Plane crash in Sudan . ITAR-TASS (August 19, 2012). Date of treatment August 26, 2012. Archived October 17, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Martyrdom of 32 Persons in Plane Crash in Taludi Area (English) , Sudan News Agency (August 19, 2012). Archived on May 14, 2013. Date of treatment August 26, 2012.
- ↑ Antonov An-26-100. Flight No: ST-ARL . RussianPlanes.Net (August 20, 2012). Date of treatment August 26, 2012. Archived on October 29, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Press release: About a plane crash in Sudan . Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (August 20, 2012). Date of treatment August 26, 2012. Archived on October 29, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 The captain of a plane crash in Sudan was a Russian , Rossiyskaya Gazeta (August 20, 2012). Date of treatment August 26, 2012.
- ↑ A Tajik citizen who died in a plane crash in Sudan was a navigator . RIA Novosti (August 21, 2012). Date of treatment August 26, 2012. Archived on October 29, 2012.
- ↑ The Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of an Armenian citizen in a plane crash in Sudan . RIA Novosti (August 21, 2012). Date of treatment August 26, 2012. Archived on October 29, 2012.