1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown

1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown

An An-26B similar to the accident aircraft
Incident
Date	4 September 1985
Summary	Shot down while en route
Site	Afghanistan
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Antonov An-26
Operator	Bakhtar Afghan Airlines
Registration	YA-BAM
Flight origin	Kandahar Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan
Destination	Farah Airport, Farah, Afghanistan
Passengers	47
Crew	5
Fatalities	52
Survivors	0

1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown was on 4 September 1985 when a Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 (registered in Afghanistan as YA-BAM) on a scheduled internal flight from Kandahar to Farah was shot down by a ground-to-air missile.^[1] The aircraft had departed from Kandahar Airport and had circled twice close to the airport to gain height and then set course for Farah Airport, it was at a height of 3800 metres and 18.5 km west of Khandahar when it was shot down and destroyed by a ground-to-air missile.^[1] All five crew and 47 passengers were killed.^[1]

Aircraft[]

The aircraft was an Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop airliner that had been built in the Soviet Union.

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