1994 Iranian Air Force C-130 shootdown

When

17 Mar 1994

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

39.82° N, 46.75° E

Description

Aviation incident

Deaths

32

Aviation incident

The 1994 Iranian Air Force C-130 shootdown occurred on March 17, 1994, when an Iranian Air Force C-130E military transport aircraft, carrying Iranian embassy personnel from Moscow to Tehran, was shot down by Armenian military forces near the city of Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh, an area which had been under armed conflict since 1988. The 32 people on board were killed in the crash.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Первая карабахская война: над Нагорным Карабахом близ города Степанакерта армянскими вооружёнными силами сбит военно-транспортный самолёт C-130…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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