Shootdown of an Il-76 in Sudan (November 2025)
Unknown · Shot down by an air defence missile-gun system
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
- About 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- About 4
- 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
On 4 November 2025, near the town of Babanusa in West Kordofan State, rebels of the Rapid Support Forces shot down an Il-76 military transport aircraft that was being used to support government forces amid the country's civil war. According to journalists of the publication Clash Report, debris in videos published from the crash site indicates that a Chinese FK-2000 air defence missile-gun system supplied by the UAE was used to shoot down the aircraft. All those on board are reported to have been killed.
Captain of the Russian Armed Forces Ilya Tumanov, author of the Telegram channel «Fighterbomber», noted that the crew of the downed aircraft consisted of citizens of the Russian Federation who were working under contract.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Ukrainian Wikipedia article “Збиття Іл-76 у Судані (листопад 2025)” (revision 47652843, 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 Іл-76 у Судані (листопад 2025)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 47652843 · 2026-03-15 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- 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 Іл-76 у Судані (листопад 2025)" (page 5641428, revision 47652843), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): The Il-76 was a military transport supporting Sudanese government forces in the civil war, a military flight even though the crew were contracted Russians. The article: "shot down an Il-76 military transport aircraft that was being used to support government forces amid the country's civil war"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities, approximate
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
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.