by Southfront Staff at Southfront
On the night of July 16, a Ukrainian An-12BK transport plane crashed in Greece. The plane fell 16 km west of Kaval airport, which is located in Greece. The plane was designed to transport cargo. The aircraft was on a Nis-Amman flight, flying from Serbia to Jordan. It was supposed to make two stops for technical reasons in Riyadh and Ahmedabad. Eventually, the plane was supposed to fly to Bangladesh.
When the aircraft entered the airspace of Greece, one of its engines caught fire. The plane’s crew made the decision to land in Kavala for an emergency landing. The plane has since disappeared from the air traffic control radar and went down near Mt. Pangei. The plane’s crash was recorded at 7:47 p.m. local time. Locals in the area confirmed the crash.
There was a crew of eight Ukrainians on the plane, none of whom survived. This information was later confirmed by the general director of the Meridian airline, to which the plane belonged.
The airplane was flying for over 50 years, and the cumulative flight time was equal to 40000 hours. It is worth mentioning that the plane wa by Meridian Air Cargo since 2022. Before this flight, the airplane made several flights in the Balkans, also flew between Sarajevo, Paris, Belgrade, and Ankara. After Ankara, it flew that ill-fated flight MEM3032 from Nis…
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