- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: March 23, 2007
Time: 1700
Location: Mogadishu, Somalia
Operator: Transaviaexport Airlines
Flight #: ?
Route: Mogadishu - Djibouti
AC Type: Ilushin Il-76TD
Registration: EW-78849 
cn / ln: 1013405192
Aboard: 11   (passengers:5  crew:6)
Fatalities: 11   (passengers:5  crew:6)
Ground: 0
Summary: The cargo plane, carrying African peacekeepers, was struck by an anti-aircraft missile shortly after taking off from Mogadishu Airport. The aircraft lost a wing into the Indian Ocean and shortly thereafter crashed in the eastern outskirts of Mogadishu.
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