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Fatal Impact:Plane Crash of Sudans Delegation
to Talodi, South Kordofan, Sudan
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Fatal Impact:Plain Crash of Sudans Delegation to Talodi,South Kordofan, Sudan
September 1, 2012
COVER: DigitalGlobe Natural Color Image o Talodi,South Kordoan, Sudan taken on August 20, 2012. Satellite Sentinel Project
Video still rom ootage broadcast on SudansAshorooq TV on August 19, 2012, showing the
Antonov crash site in Talodi, South Kordoan,Sudan. The debris appears to include a bluesection o the planes tail n.
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Overview
For he pas wo years, he Governmen o Sudan, or GoS, has sen delegaions o
senior ocials, including miliary and securiy leaders, accompanied by sae media
crews, o Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, bases in border areas during he Muslim holy
monh o R amadan.
On Augus 19, 2012, on he Muslim holiday o Eid al-Fir, which marks he las day
o Ramadan, a GoS delegaion charered a plane which ook o rom Kharoum and
crashed on approach o he SAF airsrip in alodi, Souh Kordoan. Te alodi delega-
ion was one o our delegaions, which he GoS dispached o hospos o rebellion
during Ramadan 2012. Te oher hree wen o SAF bases in El Fasher, Norh Darur1;
Kadugli, Souh Kordoan; and Kurmuk, Blue Nile sae.2
Te crash killed all 26 passengersincluding hree generals rom miliary, inelligence
and police orces, six ranking leaders o he Popular Deense Force, or PDF miliia, a
governmen miniser, 11 oher senior ocials, a ve-member sae media crew, and he
six-member igh crew.
Photo o the Ala Airlin
Antonov An-26-100, registratinumber ST-ARL, taken in ThJath, Sudan, on November
2010, showing a blue tail
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Talodi, South Kordofan, Sudan
Crash Site on
Hagar al Nar
Sudan Armed Forces
Airstrip at Talodi
300 meter
1.5km
August 20, 201
Hagar al Nar, southeast of the SAF airstrip in Talodi, South Kordofan, Suda
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DigialGlobe naural color image o Hagar al Nar, aken Augus 20, 2012, and draped over SRM-DEM (Shutle Radaropography Mission-Digial Elevaion Model) o show a 3-D image o he plane crash sie. SRM is an inernaional researcprojec o generae a high-resoluion digial opographic daabase o Earh imagery.
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Crash Site
Hagar al Nar Mountain
Talodi, South Kordofan, Sudan
Town of
Talodi
Hagar al Nar
300 mete
Sudan Armed
Forces Airstrip
August 20, 2012
Talodi Town, SAF airstrip and Hagar al Na
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Crash Site
Ashorooq V video sills o he crash sie, aken Augus
19, 2012 [INSES], compared wih DigialGlobe image
o he sie aken Augus 20.
Te conned area o he crash sie, characerized by a black
burn patern wih small pieces o debris, show ha he
plane was desroyed by he collision wih Hagar al Nar,
and no by any even prior o he momen o impac. Te
whie column o smoke visible in he video o he crash
sie on Augus 19 appears o be blowing o he norh. Tis
corroboraes a repor ha he Anonov had been ying on
a bearing o 180 (souh), atemping o land ino he wind,
on is iniial approach. Te plane hen circled around and
crashed ino he souhwesern slope o Hagar al Nar on is
second atemp, having ailed o clear he errain.
August 20, 201
Hagar el Nar in Tilodi, South Kordofan, Suda
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77 meters
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Monitoring the Crisis in the Sudans
About the Satellite Sentinel Project and the Partners
SSP launched on December 29, 2010, with the goals of preventinga return to full-scale civil war between northern and southern Sudan
as well as detecting, deterring and documenting threats to civilians
along both sides of the border. SSP focuses world attention on
pending incidents of mass violence in the Sudans and uses imagery
and analysis to generate rapid responses on human rights and
human security concerns.
The project works like this: A constellation of three DigitalGlobe
satellites passing over Sudan and South Sudan captures imagery of
possible threats to civilians, detects bombed and razed villages, ornotes other evidence of mass atrocities or pending mass violence.
SSP analyzes the imagery, open source data, and information from
sources on the ground to produce reports.
The Enough Project contributes eld reports, policy analysis, and
communication strategy and, together with Not On Our Watch,
pressures policymakers by urging the public to act. DigitalGlobe
provides high-resolution satellite imagery and analysis conducted by
the DigitalGlobe Analysis Center.
SSP is the rst sustained public effort to systematically monitor and
report on potential hotspots and threats to human security in near
real-time.
SSP is primarily funded by Not On Our Watch. To support the Satellite
Sentinel Project, donate at satsentinel.org.