Kata Air Transport Flight 007
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Aircraft accident On 11 April 2008 Kata Air Transport Flight 007, killed eight crew when a departing Sudanese cargo flight to Sudan turned back and crashed short of the runway at Chișinău International Airport.
Early reports indicated that the Ukraine-built An-32 "Cline" had engine problems and turned back to Chișinău International Airport, Moldova.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The flight from Vienna had refuelled and was bound for Khartoum, Sudan via Antalya, Turkey with a Moldovan crew of eight.[1][2]
The aircraft had undergone maintenance at Chișinău. It crashed at 22:15 local time, or 20:15 UTC. Moldovan authorities requested Russian assistance with the black box records. Novosti reported that the crew was four Russians and four Moldovans,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". but it was later determined that there were four Ukrainian and four Moldovan citizens.[3]
The aircraft was later announced as belonging to Kata Air Transport of Sudan and as having crashed close to the village of Băcioi, Moldova carrying 2.3 tonnes of vegetable oil.[4]
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- ↑ Popeski, Ron (12 April 2008). "Cargo plane crashes after takeoff from Moldova", Reuters Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- ↑ "Russian experts to Chisinau to help investigate An-32 crash". 13 April 2008 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- ↑ AP report, 12 April 2008. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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