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Kata Air Transport Flight 007

2008 aviation incident in Moldova From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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.

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Early reports indicated that the Ukraine-built An-32 "Cline" had engine problems and turned back to Chișinău International Airport, Moldova.[citation needed] 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,[citation needed] 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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