Kata Air Transport Flight 007

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{{Infobox Aircraft accident

| name = Kata Air Transport Flight 007

| image = Croatian AN-32B Ruzyne.jpg

| caption = An Antonov An-32, like the one involved in the crash

| date = 11 April 2008 22:15 UTC

| occurrence_type = Accident

| summary = Engine failure

| site = near Băcioi, Chișinău, Moldova

| coords = {{Coord|46|55|38|N|28|53|12|E|type:event|display=inline,title}}

| aircraft_type = Antonov An-32

| operator = Kata Air Transport

| tail_number = ST-AZL

| origin = Vienna International Airport

| stopover =

| stopover0 =

| stopover1 = Chișinău International Airport
KIV/LUKK

| stopover2 = Antalya Airport, Turkey

| stopover3 =

| last_stopover =

| destination = Khartoum, Sudan

| passengers = 0

| crew = 8

| injuries = 0

| fatalities = 8

| survivors = 0

}}

On 11 April 2008 Kata Air Transport Flight 007, killed eight crew when a departing Sudanese cargo flight to Sudan turned back and crashed short of the runway at Chișinău International Airport.

Early reports indicated that the Ukraine-built An-32 "Cline" had engine problems and turned back to Chișinău International Airport, Moldova.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} The flight from Vienna had refuelled and was bound for Khartoum, Sudan via Antalya, Turkey with a Moldovan crew of eight.Popeski, Ron (12 April 2008). [http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL11704974.html "Cargo plane crashes after takeoff from Moldova"], Reuters {{dead link | date=June 2014}}{{Cite web |date=12 April 2008 |title=Sudanese plane crashes in Moldova, eight dead |url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/198443,sudanese-plane-crashes-in-moldova-eight-dead.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714115007/http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/198443,sudanese-plane-crashes-in-moldova-eight-dead.html |archive-date=14 July 2014 |website=Earth Times}}

The aircraft had undergone maintenance at Chișinău. It crashed at 22:15 local time, or 20:15 UTC. Moldovan authorities requested Russian assistance with the black box records. Novosti reported that the crew was four Russians and four Moldovans,{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} but it was later determined that there were four Ukrainian and four Moldovan citizens.[http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12576433&PageNum=0 "Russian experts to Chisinau to help investigate An-32 crash"]. 13 April 2008 {{dead link | date=June 2014}}

The aircraft was later announced as belonging to Kata Air Transport of Sudan and as having crashed close to the village of Băcioi, Moldova carrying 2.3 tonnes of vegetable oil.[http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5htdjcRBndEYvqaEfjoC7sWwms5dAD900ABO80 AP report], 12 April 2008. {{dead link|date=November 2012|bot=Legobot}}