Shootdown of an An-26 near Luhansk
Ukrainian Air Force Antonov An-26 · Hit by a "Buk" surface-to-air missile system missile from the territory of Russia
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
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 6
- 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
Antonov An-26
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-26
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Ukrainian Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
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
The shootdown of an An-26 in Luhansk Oblast was an attack on 14 July 2014 on a Ukrainian military transport aviation An-26 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the war in eastern Ukraine.
An independent investigation established that the aircraft was shot down at an altitude of 6500 m by a "Buk" surface-to-air missile system of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from Russian territory.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Ukrainian Wikipedia article “Збиття Ан-26 під Луганськом” (revision 44478990, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Ukrainian Wikipedia article: Збиття Ан-26 під Луганськом
- Article
- Збиття Ан-26 під Луганськом
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 44478990 · 2025-01-27 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q20077105
- 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
- uk Wikipedia article "Збиття Ан-26 під Луганськом" (page 1736149, revision 44478990), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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 named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Ukrainian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.