Fatalities 8 Aircraft type Antonov An-32 Date 11 April 2008 Operator Kata Air Transport Crew count 8 | Survivors 0 Aircraft name Cline Number of deaths 8 Survivor 0 Flight origin Vienna | |
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Site Chişinău International Airport approach 2nd stopover Chişinău International Airport
KIV/LUKK Similar Belavia Flight 1834, 2008 Macedonian Armed Fo, Sudan Airways Flight 109, 2008 Conviasa Boeing 7, 2008 Aéreo Ruta Maya crash | ||
A 12 April, 2008 Chişinău Antonov An-32 crash killed eight crew when a departing Sudanese cargo flight to Turkey turned back and crashed short of the runway.
Early reports indicated that the Ukraine-built An-32 "Cline" had engine problems and turned back to Chişinău International Airport, Moldova. The flight from Vienna had refuelled and was bound for Khartoum, Sudan via Antalya, Turkey with a Moldovan crew of eight.
The aircraft had undergone maintenance at Chişinău. 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, but it was later determined that there were four Ukrainian and four Moldovan citizens.
The aircraft was later announced as belonging to Kata Air Transport of Sudan and as having crashed close to the village of Bachoy, Moldova carrying 2.3 tonnes of fuel.