What the records say
- When
- 6 Mar 2018
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 35.44° N, 35.89° E
- Description
- Plane crash killing 39 people
- Deaths
- 33
- Injured
- 0
Placed at the middle of the 3 places Wikidata lists.
2018 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crash
2018 plane crash in Syria
On 6 March 2018, an Antonov An-26 transport aircraft crashed on approach to Khmeimim air base in Syria, killing all 39 people on board. All of them were servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces, including Major-General Vladimir Yeremeyev.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2018 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crash: An Antonov An-26 transport aircraft operated by the Russian Air Force crashes on approach to Khmeimim air base in…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “авиакатастрофа Ан-26 ВВС РФ вблизи аэродрома Хмеймим; все 39 человек на борту погибли”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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