VOLARE AN-12 DOWN IN AGADIR
 

NEWS JUST COMING IN OF AN12 UR-LIP CRASH ON TAKE OFF FROM AGADIR, MORROCO LATE LAST NIGHT. . .ANY NEWS, CREW PRESUMED DEAD...

Hit Mountain at 9900 feet en-route to Algiers. All 8 on board dead.

This was on Reuters last night.

RABAT, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A small Ukrainian cargo plane has crashed in southern Morocco killing all eight people on board, a government official said on Thursday.. . The plane, a turbo-prop Antonov-12 carrying fish from Senegal's capital Dakar to Algiers, crashed into a mountain on Wednesday night minutes after taking off from the Atlantic port city of Agadir.. . There was no indication of the cause of the accident.. . Rescue teams who reached the site of the crash on Thursday found debris and body parts scattered around a large area as well as eight Ukrainian passports, the official said.

Crashed near Taroudant, Atlas Mountains at 9,900feet. Regretably 8 fatalities. Some confusion about route. Aviation Safety Network has it routing Agadir-Algiers. Local Press - (Maghreb Arabe Press) has it routing Algiers to Dakar, making a stopover in Agadir, due to technical problems.

1. Why Volare ?

2. An Antonov 12 is NOT a small aircraft

Aircraft An-12 UR-LIP. .Operator: Volare (Ukraine). .FLT VRE 2482. .Dakar-Agadir-Algiers-Athens. .Cargo: fish

My deepest condolences to all at Volare (Ukraine).

Recceguy,

1. Because this was the detail in the Aviation Safety Network report.

2. Depends on what you call big. Comnpared to the IL-76 it is a small(er) aircraft. Looks about the size of a C130-J.