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Shootdown of an An-26 near Luhansk

14 Jul 2014 · Krasnodon Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Ukrainian Air Force Antonov An-26 · Hit by a "Buk" surface-to-air missile system missile from the territory of Russia

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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
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.