15-4- 2023 Saudia Airlines and SkyUp airplanes destroyed!

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15-4- 2023 Saudia Airlines and SkyUp airplanes destroyed!

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At Khartoum airport RSA forces stormed the airfield and set fire to a Saudi A330 and a SkyUp Airlines B737 according to various sources.
Registrations not available at the moment of aircraft concerned 😟

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Re: 15-4- 2023 Saudia Airlines and SkyUp airplanes destroyed!

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Saudia Registration should be HZ-AQ30
SkyUp Airlines should be UR-SQA or UR-SQH
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Re: 15-4- 2023 Saudia Airlines and SkyUp airplanes destroyed!

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HZ-AQ30 should perform a flight from Khartoum to Ryadh yesterday, which got cancelled. So that’s the Saudi one
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Re: 15-4- 2023 Saudia Airlines and SkyUp airplanes destroyed!

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Read in an article that UR-SQH is the victim regarding the SkyUp ones.
The Saudi is indeed HZ-AQ30.
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Re: 15-4- 2023 Saudia Airlines and SkyUp airplanes destroyed!

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Also some Ilyushin and Antonov planes destroyed https://twitter.com/Derwish249/status/1 ... 98402?s=20
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Re: 15-4- 2023 Saudia Airlines and SkyUp airplanes destroyed!

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https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/i ... 08febac2a9

Shows the latest updates from Khartoum, not much Russian hardwere left
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