1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown was on 4 September 1985 when a
Bakhtar Afghan Airlines
Bakhtar Afghan Airlines is an airline from Afghanistan, which offers domestic flights. The company was founded in 1967 as Bakhtar Airlines, a name it kept until 1985, when it was renamed Bakhtar Afghan Airlines by Pashtun governments. In 1985 th ...
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.
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.
All five crew and 47 passengers were killed.
Aircraft
The aircraft was an
Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop airliner that had been built in the Soviet Union.
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