ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328826
Date: | Friday 21 July 1978 |
Time: | |
Type: | IRMA/Britten-Norman BN-2A-21 Islander |
Owner/operator: | Force Aérienne de la République Islamique de Mauritanie |
Registration: | 5T-MAT |
MSN: | 765 |
Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | unknown -
Western Sahara
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft was damaged by possible small arms fire whilst operating against Polisario Front fighters in the Western Sahara. Consequently written-off.
Date also reported as July 21, 1977.
Sources:
Exotic Air Forces Thomas Brügge
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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