While googling for that aircraft's registration number, I have hit several interesting articles mentioning that it once belonged to a company called Sakavia. That company was supposedly linked to the suspected russian arms and drug dealer Viktor Bout who was recently extradited from Thailand where he has been held for quite a while to the US. The plane was then sold to Sky Georgia, the privatized successor of the Georgian National Airlines and as such was photographed at Sharjah (SHJ) airport in January 2010:
Photo Sky Georgia Ilyushin IL-76TD 4L-GNI
I'm
not suggesting anything about the current owner of that ill-fated airframe. I just though it was worth mentioning its troubled past. If it wasn't, shoot me.