1986 Sudan Airways Fokker F-27 shootdown

1986 airliner shootdown 1986 Sudan Airways Fokker F-27 shootdown Shootdown TAT Fokker F27 Friendship Volpati-6.jpg A Fokker F-27 similar to the accident aircraft operated by TAT European Airlines 1986 08 16 y Shot-down by SPLA militants Near Malakal Airport, Malakal, South Sudan 9 34 29.94 N 31 41 22.59 E type:event inline,title Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M Sudan Airways ST-ADY Malakal Airport (MAK/HSSM) Khartoum International Airport (KRT/HSSS) 57 3 60 0 On 16 August 1986 a Sudan Airways Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M was performing a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Malakal (in present South Sudan) to Khartoum in Sudan, when it was shot down by the SPLA militants. All 60 people on board the aircraft were killed.Criminal Occurrence description http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19860816-0 31 May 2014 Aviation Safety Network Flight Safety Foundation 2024 February, the shootdown remains the deadliest incident involving a Fokker F-27 and the deadliest aviation incident in South Sudan. Background During the Second Sudanese Civil War, on 5 August 1986, the SPLA militants announced they would shoot down all unauthorized military or civilian aircraft, claiming that the government was using them to transport soldiers and weapons.Schanche Didrik Sudanese Rebels Will Bar Relief Agencies Operating Under Government Auspices https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-sudanese-rebels-wi/180080548/ 31 August 2025 Los Angeles Times Associated Press 30 August 1987 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 12 Newspapers.com Approximately at the time of the 1986 shootdown the militants singled out one humanitarian charter company, alleging that the company had a government contract "to spy on and take aerial photographs of" rebel operations. In May 1986 the militants brought down a passenger plane, killing all 13 aboard. The aircraft involved in the August 1986 shootdown had a serial number 10277. It made its maiden flight in 1965 and accrued a total of 25,702 airframe hours and 19,290 flight cycles. Shootdown thumb|A Strela 2 missile being fired, similar to that involved in the incident Shortly after takeoff from Malakal the aircraft was brought down by a Soviet-made Strela 2 surface-to-air missile, fired by a Shilluk contingent of the SPLA. According to contemporary press reports, the missile was captured from the Sudanese army.http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1986/1986%20-%202099.html African routes survive politics and missiles Flight International 37 30 August 1986 31 May 2014 References Category:1986 in Sudan Category:Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Fokker F27 Category:Airliner shootdown incidents Category:1986 mass murders Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1986 Category:Military history of South Sudan Category:Sudan Airways accidents and incidents Category:20th-century aircraft shootdown incidents Category:August 1986 in Africa Category:1986 murders in Sudan Category:20th-century mass murders in Sudan Category:20th-century disasters in South Sudan Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in South Sudan Category:Malakal