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Balad aircraft crash

34Fatalities
1Survivors
35On board

Accident details

What happened

An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes near Balad, Iraq, killing 34 of the 35 people on board. The official cause of the crash is poor weather conditions, but other sources claim that the plane was shot down by a missile.

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