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| Africa Horn |
| Cargo plane crashes in Khartoum, killing 4 crew |
| 2008-06-30 |
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| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #1 Bad time to be flying around over there. Sudan Tribune... A MIG-29 fighter Jet was shot down killing its Russian pilot during the Darfur rebel assault on the Sudanese capital earlier this month, a Russian radio station said today. The independent Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy quoted a man by the name of Vladimir as saying that a colleague of his in Sudan told him that “a flight instructor flying a MIG-29 was shot down from a large-caliber machine-gun during this fighting [Darfur rebel attack]”. Vladimir said the slain pilot was a flight instructor training the Sudanese pilots on flying the MIG-29 fighter jets. In 2004 Khartoum said that Moscow supplied them with a dozen MIG-29’s. The Ekho Moskvy radio also quoted Vladimir as saying that the flight instructor managed to eject after his plane was shot by JEM rebels “but the parachute failed to open and the pilot died”. Vladimir did not provide the pilot’s name but said that “he was from the Ryazan higher military academy”. The radio station also contacted the Russian Defense Ministry which denied the report and quoted its spokesman as saying that “if something like this had happened we would have received relevant documents. If we don’t have them, nothing has happened”. The defense ministry also said they have no intention of checking on the report of the MIG-29 fighter in Sudan or the fate of its pilot. Spoken like an true old line Commie beaureacrat. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-06-30 15:29 |