Qualla: 2012 Talodi Antonov An-26 crash https://qualla.com/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/v/s/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: 2012 Talodi Antonov An-26 crash https://qualla.com/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash 2012 Talodi Antonov An-26 crash: Introduction https://qualla.com/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. They had taken off from Khartoum at just after six on the morning of 19 August 2012, on their way to an Eid al-Fitr celebration to mark the end of Ramadan. A Sudanese government delegation - the minister of religious endowments Ghazi al-Sadiq Abdel Rahim, generals of the armed forces, other officials, a television crew - was flying south to Talodi, a small town in the war-torn state of South Kordofan. The weather over the Nuba Mountains was bad. The cloud deck was low. Around eight, somewhere in the mountain range, the Antonov An-26 descended lower than it should have and struck a ridge. All thirty-two people on board were killed.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/v/s/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-wp/s9vs-2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full 2012 Talodi Antonov An-26 crash: Six Crew, Twenty-Six Passengers https://qualla.com/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. The aircraft was registered ST-ARL, built in 1974 at the Aviant plant in Ukraine in the old Soviet Union, and operated by Alfa Airlines of Sudan. The crew came from four countries. Captain Gennady Semenov, a senior Russian pilot, flew the aircraft in command. His Sudanese first o...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/v/s/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-wp/s9vs-2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-six-crew-twenty-six-passengers.mp3 0:06 2 full 2012 Talodi Antonov An-26 crash: Weather and a Mountain https://qualla.com/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. Early reports in the confusion after the accident described it as a helicopter crash. Some accounts suggested rebels had shot the plane down; rebel spokesman Arnu Ngutulu Lodi initially claimed responsibility, then retracted the claim, noting the aircraft had gone down outside re...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/v/s/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-wp/s9vs-2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-weather-and-a-mountain.mp3 0:06 3 full 2012 Talodi Antonov An-26 crash: Flight Context https://qualla.com/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. The crash site lies at approximately 10.64 degrees N, 30.38 degrees E in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, Sudan, at an elevation of around 500 metres. The nearest major airfield is Khartoum International Airport (ICAO HSSS) about 720 km north; Kadugli Airport (HSKA) and the Talodi airstrip serve the immediate region. From the air the Nuba Mountains present as a rugged granite range rising abruptly from the plains. Terrain masking in low cloud remains a hazard; the crash was classified as controlled flight into terrain in poor visibility. Treat the area as sensitive airspace given ongoing regional instability.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/v/s/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-wp/s9vs-2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-the-flight-recorders.mp3 0:06 4 full 2012 Talodi Antonov An-26 crash: The Nuba Mountains https://qualla.com/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. The range where the aircraft came to rest rises abruptly out of the flat southern Sudanese plains - a scatter of granite peaks and forested slopes home to dozens of Nuba ethnic groups. The mountains have been fought over for most of a century, caught between Khartoum and the move...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/v/s/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-wp/s9vs-2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash-the-nuba-mountains.mp3 0:06 5 full 2012 Talodi Antonov An-26 crash: What Was Lost https://qualla.com/2012-talodi-antonov-an-26-crash/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. The flight had been a small gesture - a delegation flying to join a holiday celebration in a difficult corner of the country. It ended with six aircrew from four nations and twenty-six passengers dead in a ridge of the Nuba Mountains. The Russian embassy, the foreign ministries o...

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