Summary Engine failure Crew 9 Survivors 2 Number of deaths 7 Survivor 2 | Passengers 0 Fatalities 7 Date 18 May 2016 Operator Silk Way Airlines Location Dwyer Airport | |
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Site Dwyer Airport, Afghanistan Location Dwyer Airport, Afghanistan Similar 2016 True Aviation An‑26 cra, 2016 Ecuadorian Army Ara, Tara Air Flight 193, Singapore Airlines Flight 368, 2016 Magdalen Islands M | ||
On 18 May 2016, a Silk Way Airlines Antonov An-12 cargo plane crashed after an engine failure shortly after taking off from Dwyer Airport in southern Afghanistan, en route to Mary International Airport in Turkmenistan. Seven of the nine crew members on board were killed in the crash, which was the second incident for Silk Way in Afghanistan after a 2011 Il-76 crash.
Arif Mammadov, head of Azerbaijan's State Civil Aviation Administration, said that the aircraft crashed after hitting an obstruction.
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