A Georgian-registered IL-76 that belongs to a startup Georgian company no one ever heard of, an aircraft that is not on the Manufacturers' list of aircraft flying with valid Airworthiness documents, crewed by 7 Ukrainians and a Georgian, and that is based at Sharjah, in the UAE, crashes after a 1 AM take-off from Pakistan, on its way to war-torn and arms-embargoed Soudan, and this one poster writes as his hypothesis for the cause of the crash:
Originally Posted by captplaystation
Regretably I think " Russian Cargo Aircraft" is probably enough of an explanation
and all you "experts" stay mum but criticize me for attempting to show that this statement was wrong and baseless. I guess you all agree with him then. It crashed because it was a Russian cargo aircraft. The Pakistan civil aviation authority seems to agree with most of you anyway:
Precaution: Russian aircraft at Pakistani airports grounded – The Express Tribune