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Fatal Impact:Plane Crash of Sudans Delegation

to Talodi, South Kordofan, Sudan

Satellite Sentinel Projectsatsentinel.org

Monitoring the Crisis in the Sudans


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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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Satellite Sentinel Project

satsentinel.org

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.

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