Political Groups
Name | Nationality | Year | Description of Members | Flight/Aircraft | Location | Cause/Circumstances |
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1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash | USA | 1996 | United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown (U.S. politician) and 34 other people. | Boeing CT-43 | Dubrovnik, Croatia | Missed approach, CFIT |
National Assembly of the Republic of Poland | POL | 2010 | President Lech Kaczyński; First Lady Maria Kaczyńska; Senator Janina Fetlińska; Stanisław Komorowski; Andrzej Kremer, Tomasz Merta and others | Tupolev Tu-154M | Smolensk North Airport, Smolensk | 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash |
2012 Sudan Antonov An-26 crash | SUD | 2012 | Guidance and Endowments minister Ghazi al-Sadeq, State Minister for Youth and Sports Mahjoub Abdel Raheem Toutou and State Minister for Tourism Eissa Daifallah and 29 other people. | Antonov An-26 | Nuba Mountains south Talodi, South Kordofan, Sudan | Poor weather |
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