On 11 April 2008 Kata Air Transport Flight 007, killed eight crew when a departing Sudanese cargo flight to Sudan turned back and crashed short of the runway at Chișinău International Airport. Early reports indicated that the

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-built An-32 "Cline" had engine problems and turned back to

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, Moldova. The flight from

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had refuelled and was bound for

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via

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with a Moldovan crew of eight. The aircraft had undergone maintenance at Chișinău. It crashed at 22:15 local time, or 20:15 UTC. Moldovan authorities requested Russian assistance with the black box records. Novosti reported that the crew was four Russians and four Moldovans, but it was later determined that there were four Ukrainian and four Moldovan citizens. The aircraft was later announced as belonging to Kata Air Transport of Sudan and as having crashed close to the village of

Băcioi Băcioi is a commune in Chişinău municipality, Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Ro ...

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carrying 2.3 tonnes of vegetable oil.AP report
12 April 2008.

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