:1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown

{{Short description|Aircraft crash near Kandahar, Afghanistan}}

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{{Infobox aircraft occurrence

|name = 1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown

|occurrence_type = Incident

|image = Antonov An-26B, Air Armenia AN1988305.jpg

|alt =

|caption = An An-26B similar to the accident aircraft

|date = 4 September 1985

|summary = Shot down while en route

|site = Afghanistan

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|aircraft_type = Antonov An-26

|aircraft_name =

|operator = Bakhtar Afghan Airlines

|tail_number = YA-BAM

|origin = Kandahar Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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|destination = Farah Airport, Farah, Afghanistan

|passengers = 47

|crew = 5

|injuries =

|fatalities = 52

|survivors = 0

}}

1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown was on 4 September 1985 when a Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 (registered in Afghanistan as YA-BAM) on a scheduled internal flight from Kandahar to Farah was shot down by a ground-to-air missile.{{cite book |title=World airline accident summary : accidents occurring to aeroplanes of more than 5700 kg maximum weight. 1974–1996 |publisher=Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom) |year=1996 |isbn=0-903083-44-2}} The aircraft had departed from Kandahar Airport and had circled twice close to the airport to gain height and then set course for Farah Airport, it was at a height of 3800 meters and 18.5 km west of Kandahar when it was shot down and destroyed by a surface-to-air missile (SAM) fired from Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin.{{cite news |title=Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems: A Persistent and Potent Threat |url=https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/man-portable-air-defense-systems-persistent-and-potent-threat |access-date=10 May 2025 |work=Stratfor |date=1 February 2010 |page=25 |url-access=subscription}} All five crew and 47 passengers were killed.