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Old 1st Feb 2003, 06:32
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Russian crash at Baucau

Just saw on the news a report of a Russian transport aircraft crash at Baucau, East Timor.
Details were a bit sketchy, but apparently it was a large transport with 6 pob carrying 50 tons of cargo which went down in foggy conditions.
Video of the wreckage showed pieces of the machine scattered around, no chance of survivors unfortunately by the looks.
Low cloud certainly sets in there on the coastal hillside; I don't know what kind of approaches they've got set up there now, probably GPS NPA - there was a Tacan approach in use there a couple of years ago, but I don't know if anything ground-based is up nowadays.
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