ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 320506
| Date: | Saturday 14 June 2014 |
| Time: | 00:50 |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-76MD |
| Owner/operator: | Ukraine Air Force |
| Registration: | 76777 |
| MSN: | 0083482490 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1988 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 49 / Occupants: 49 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | ca 5,5 km E of Lugansk Airport (VSG) -
 Ukraine
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Melitopol Air Base (UKDM) |
| Lugansk Airport (VSG/UKCW) |
An Ilyushin 76 transport plane of the Ukraine Air Force crashed near Lugansk, Ukraine after being hit by one shoulder-fired 9K38 "Igla" missile. It was subsequently hit by machine gun fire and all nine crew members and 40 soldiers died.
The airplane carried troops from the 25th airborne brigade and a BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicle.
Sources:
Reuters
Ukraine Ministry of Defence
AeroVokzal
Wing.com.ua
Location
Images:
photo (c) Oleg Volkov; Vyshkiv (Lutsk); 21 May 2014
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Oostende Airport (OST/EBOS); June 1999
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