ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 164740
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Date: | Wednesday 9 May 2001 |
Time: | |
Type: | Beechcraft King Air |
Owner/operator: | Private on behalf of Red Cross |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Over South Sudan, between Juba and Lokichokio -
South Sudan
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Lokichokio, Kenya |
Destination airport: | Khartoum, Sudan |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Over South Sudan, the plane was hit by two unidentified objects.
One explosion damaged the cockpit and killed the co-pilot.
The second explosion damaged the right wing of the plane.
The pilot managed to fly the plane back to Lokichokio, Kenya.
The plane was clearly marked as a Red Cross plane
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/05/09/red-cross-plane-shot-at-over-sudan-pilot-killed.html https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/2796-red-cross-co-pilot-killed-sudanese-attack.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1320921.stm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Mar-2014 19:02 |
gerard57 |
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