ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325831
| Date: | Wednesday 27 February 1991 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Antonov An-12BP |
| Owner/operator: | Iraqi Airways |
| Registration: | YI-AFJ |
| MSN: | 8345910 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Shaykh Mazhar Air Base -
 Iraq
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
The An-12 transport plane was destroyed by a 1000lb bomb dropped by an RAF Buccaneer aircraft. It was on the ground at what was known as Shaykh Mazhar Air Base, just west of the city of Al-Suwaira, Iraq.
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