Accident
The antonov AN-26 freighter registration EX-126 (MSN 11508) performing a charter flight from Juba to Wau with 6 passengers and 3 crew lost height shortly after departure from Juba runway and impacted a farm about 2.5 nmi (4.6 km) from the runway. [5] Eyewitnesses report that the aircraft suddenly lost power [6] and crashed in the Hai Referendum residential area. [4] Weather is not believed to be a factor. [6] 8 people in the aircraft (3 South Sudanese, and 5 Russians) were killed. [7] There was one reported survivor who was taken to a hospital in critical condition. According to South Sudanese Transport Minister Madut Biar Yol there were five crew members, all Russian nationals. [8]
According to early reports, the plane crashed into a residential area. It burned as residents approached it. [9]
Some reports indicated the aircraft was on a charter flight for the World Food Programme (WFP) when it crashed, [10] and was carrying spare parts, motorbikes, food, as well as NGO staff salaries, [6] though the WFP subsequently clarified that the aircraft had in fact been chartered by Galaxy Star International, a local company that provides services to the WFP and other UN agencies. [11]
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