• in 1974 an Air Mali Ilyushin Il-18 crashed after performing a night-time forced landing on the road from Ouagadougou to Niamey, killing at least 47 people?

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Ilyushin Il-76

• the 1995 Airstan incident, which ended 14 years ago today with Russian hostages escaping Taliban captivity via an Ilyushin Il-76 (pictured), was made into the 2010 Russian movie, Kandahar?
• the only operable AWACS equipped aircraft of the Iranian Air Force was destroyed in a mid-air collision on 22 September 2009?