A military transport aircraft Il-76 of the Sudanese Armed Forces crashed in West Kordofan. This was reported by the local newspaper Sudan Tribune.
The crash of the aircraft occurred during a cargo delivery mission. The plane experienced a technical malfunction in the right wing, after which it caught fire and crashed.
The crew was able to steer the aircraft away from military positions. As a result of the crash, all crew members died.
Il-76 is a Soviet and Russian heavy military transport aircraft developed by the Ilyushin Design Bureau. The aircraft was mass-produced at the Tashkent Aviation Production Association named after V. P. Chkalov in Uzbekistan.
In 2010, the production of the aircraft was officially transferred to Russia at the Aviastar-SP plant in Ulyanovsk, where currently an updated version of the Il-114-300 is being produced.
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