An Il-76 military transport plane crashed while attempting to land at Osman Digna Air Base in Port Sudan on Sudan's Red Sea coast, killing the entire crew due to a technical malfunction, according to reports shared over the past 59 minutes from 11:16 p.m. UTC on Dec. 9 to 12:15 a.m. on Dec. 10, 2025. The incident occurred during landing operations at the air base, with the crash attributed directly to the technical issue, as stated in monitoring updates during the reporting window. Just over a month ago, another Il-76 carrying a Russian crew was shot down in Sudan, according to an X post by @bayraktar_1love citing the event as occurring yesterday in that earlier context.
