2024 Darfur Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown
Sudanese Armed Forces Ilyushin Il-76T · Shootdown
From Port Sudan New International Airport (PZU) to El Fasher Airport (ELF)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 5
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Ilyushin Il-76T
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-76
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- ST-JAN
- Operator
- Sudanese Armed Forces
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From Port Sudan New International Airport (PZU)To El Fasher Airport (ELF)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
On 21 October 2024, a cargo Ilyushin Il-76 was shot down over the Darfur region of western Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the Sudanese civil war. All five people aboard were killed. The aircraft was operated by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on a mission to deliver equipment and medicine to the army-held city of Al-Fashir.
The aircraft involved was an Ilyushin Il-76 registered previously as EX-76011 with serial number 0013428831 operated by New Way Cargo Airlines registered in Kyrgyzstan. The aircraft was exported to Sudan on 12 January 2024 where it was re-registered ST-JAN; the initial report that it was EX-76011 was on account of a safety card bearing this registration being found in the wreckage. The plane was operating since December 2023 from Port Sudan. It previously have supplied the RSF but at the time of its shootdown was supplying the SAF.
Incident
The aircraft was reportedly hit by missiles fired by the RSF while it was flying over Darfur. Videos of the crash show the plane on fire diving towards the ground before crashing. The RSF claimed to have recovered the plane's black boxes and some documents it was carrying. A safety pamphlet and a Russian passport were found on the crash site. The RSF troops in Darfur might have been unaware of the flights that were flying over the region at the time, instead expecting attacks from the Sudanese Air Force.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 2024 Darfur Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown
- Revision
- 1375094407 · 2026-09-15 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q130611085
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2024 Darfur Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown" (page 78176606, revision 1375094407)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator is an armed force according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.