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Then-captured Plane

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Back in August, 1995, Russian
IL-76TD RA-76842 plane was captured by the militants from Taliban movement.
Along with the plane an aircrew was also captured (8 people.) And today the
story is going to go about this plane.

IL-76 was owned by a private
airlines from Kazan called Aerostan. The plane was subleased out by the Afghan
government and was shipping ammunition supplies en-route
Tirana-Sharjah-Kabul.

The cargo was conforming with all
norms of ICAO and was permitted for shipping. It was not their first flight to
Kabul; special radio waves didnâ€™t air any prohibitions or limitations for the
flight. Everything was going alright.

But over Afghanistan territory,
while the plane was 8,000 meters high, it was captured by MIG-21 fighter jet
which was owned by Taliban movement. A short time after the plane was forced to
land at the airport of Kandahar city.

Taliban blamed Russia and the air
crew altogether in interference with introafghanistan issues and placed the air
crew under the increased security until everything will be settled down and all
their requirements would be fulfilled.

Vain attempts of Russia, UN, OIC and
US to set the crew free lead nowhere.

Every way, either pressure or
reasoning one, was depleted. The hard option was almost impossible back then; it
will inevitably lead to heavy casualties and death of the whole crew. Even
ransom way was put forward. Some backstairs negotiations were conducted with the
Taliban authorities. But because of nobody-knows-which matters the mutual
agreement unfortunately wasnâ€™t reached.

No sooner than a year passed, 378
days if to be exact, before Russian pilots managed to make an outraging runaway;
they played upon a silly blunt of security who allowed them to start repairing
the plane.

They were acting as sharp and
consistently as ever: engineers were shutting the loading ramp, a pilot was
starting engines and a radio operator was checking radio lines. Behavior or the
air crew didnâ€™t attract a bit of securityâ€™s attention. Maybe just the
loading ramp made them somewhat uneasy.

Slowly but firmly they were heading
their way to a take-off which was too short. Itâ€™s not a fast thing to speed up
a huge aircraft with some militants chasing you on a military car. But another
capturing didnâ€™t work this time and the plane got off from the last meter of
the runway.

In the meantime, the leading pilot
tries to fly towards the border with Iran. Thanks God that all then-needed
permissions for it were already granted.

While trying to reach the Iran
border the plane was flying to the uttermost low altitude (50-100 meters) and
being at a radiosilence mode. MIG-21 might have probably been looking for them,
though not in Iran but in Russia.

When at the territory of Iran, the
plane gained a normal height and in an hour landed at the Sharjah airport
(UAE.)

Story and photos via russos

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Comments
(26) 3:18 pm

26 Responses to “Then-captured Plane”

Nick
says:

July
26, 2010 at 3:29 pm

Great!!!

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Nick
says:

July
26, 2010 at 3:29 pm

Great!!!

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nebulu
says:

July
26, 2010 at 3:37 pm

last!!!!

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perristalsis
says:

July
26, 2010 at 3:57 pm

Luv the guy holding the unshielded work light next to the fuselage http://media.englishrussia.com/plane_capturing_1/24.jpg, bust
it on the hull and the whole ship is electrified as well as frying the
avionics.

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alex
says:

July
26, 2010 at 4:04 pm

kandahar is where taliban forced them to land the plane

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whodareswins
says:

July
27, 2010 at 5:11 am

“kandahar is where taliban forced them to land the plane”

Which is what the author said

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DougW
says:

July
26, 2010 at 4:10 pm

5nd!
Glad to hear they are safe.

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Macsen
says:

July
26, 2010 at 5:25 pm

I remember reading about that in the newspapers. Thought that their getaway
was really cool.

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grisly
says:

July
27, 2010 at 1:11 am

And Russians issued the movie about the Kandagar situation – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1272018/

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DouglasUrantia
says:

July
26, 2010 at 5:44 pm

“Let’s just check out the engines at high speed…OK…go for it”…”hahahaha see
ya later”…..lol

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horlama yastigi says:

July
27, 2010 at 5:44 am

Great!!!

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Soendoro Soetanto says:

July
28, 2010 at 3:15 am

Sounds like in the James Bond movie.
Thanks for sharing,

Soendoro Soetanto

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Creative Memories Scrapbooking says:

July
30, 2010 at 3:17 pm

That is a pretty freaky looking plane. It is great!!

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zorkor
says:

July
31, 2010 at 7:17 am

I guess the talibans were already getting really tired of them. I think
once they saw them flying away, they thought “Good Riddance”…lol

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antibanbocor says:

August
2, 2010 at 6:18 pm

great job,

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Mara
says:

August
5, 2010 at 11:11 am

Interesting story and good pictures, thanks. But dude, your English writing
is a torture to read. You need to work on that.

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Mara
says:

August
10, 2010 at 12:55 am

I’ll be happy to spend some time rewriting this in correct English. It’s
a great story that deserves good rendition – I didn’t know about it until I
stumbled upon this page.

Better English version exists in Wikipedia, by the way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aerostan_incident

If you are the author of the story or the operator of this web site,
please contact me by e-mail.

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SK
says:

August
9, 2010 at 12:00 am

With all the unemployed native speakers of English you couldn’t have fixed
this sad torture of the language? Very unfortunate.

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Ivan
Pulatitski says:

August
14, 2010 at 5:23 pm

This guy was the translator for “Cultural Learnings of America for Make
Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”.

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DAVE says:

August
17, 2010 at 4:06 pm

go work on your English you prick!….

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johnno
says:

September
9, 2010 at 6:14 am

MIG-21 fighter jet which was owned by Taliban movement??? Since when do the
Taliban own fighter jets?

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achmed
the troll says:

October
8, 2010 at 2:56 pm

That was some of the worst most confused english I have ever read. so, the
plane was captured then they tried to fix it and then they escaped? Oh.

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T.C.
says:

November
21, 2010 at 7:15 pm

Enjoyed the story and pictures. Although your English was a bit garbled,
thanks for making the effort-I wouldn’t have understood any of it in Russian,
and neither would most of those complaining about the translation. I
understand the IL76 is roughly equivalent to the C141, and both are very
capable, and tough, cargo jets. The crew were ingenious in their escape, and
deserved a movie being made about it. Many people don’t realize the Taliban
appropriated tanks and planes they captured, and had people capable of
operating them, in some cases the original crews, who just switched sides. If
a MIG had caught the IL76 at low altitude, it would have been all over. Good
stuff.

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muytrrrreeeqq
says:

December
9, 2010 at 7:11 pm

lol, first picture gave me the urge to kick a Star Wars Marathon!
looks like the pod racer engines in first movie

Good night

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vinod says:

February
20, 2011 at 10:46 pm

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don’t know how So here’s what I’ll do I’ll write you a letter Saying what I’ve
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when I do it makes me cry So I’ll write to you Without a lie I’ll say that I
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wear your big coat I’ll say that whenever I close my eyes I see you face It
never dies I’ll say that you’re perfect In every possible way That I wish I
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it’s crazy beacuse I know you can’t be Do you think about me Or did you forget
The things we had done And the goals we had set But after I read My note once
again I realize I’d never send it It’s a waist of my pen You’d see it, and
read it Then throw it away You don’t care anymore To yourself you would say I
stare at my paper With a sad pout The shred it to peices And throw it out

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Locose says:

March
17, 2011 at 12:30 pm

yup, they maneged to runnaway. Like in some action movie.

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