Ethiopia Air Force C-130 shot down over Tigray

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Ethiopia Air Force C-130 shot down over Tigray

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Today, the Tigray Defence Force downed an Erhiopian C-130, possible while landing at Mekele airport. It seems all (no number mentioned yet) POB died.
Source: Ethiopia Map on Twitter.
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Re: Ethiopia Air Force C-130 shot down over Tigray

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https://twitter.com/profkindeya/status/ ... 42369?s=21

The video that shows the C-130 going down. Some sources mention 1564 as the C-130E involved, which was gifted by the US in 2014.
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Re: Ethiopia Air Force C-130 shot down over Tigray

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Looks like this might be the ET-AJK. Some picture is circulating on Twitter indicating this is c/n 5022:

https://twitter.com/ProfKindeya/status/ ... 87/photo/2
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Re: Ethiopia Air Force C-130 shot down over Tigray

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jreijmer wrote: ↑25 Jun 2021, 14:43 Looks like this might be the ET-AJK. Some picture is circulating on Twitter indicating this is c/n 5022:

https://twitter.com/ProfKindeya/status/ ... 87/photo/2
That one I missed. Looks like you’re right
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