Investigation Summary
This record exists to separate two events that the accident databases have partly merged. Both entries place an Il-76M of the Libyan Air Force on approach to Sebha in 1987, flying the same evacuation shuttle out of the Aouzou Strip as Chadian forces recaptured it. They are not the same aircraft: the manufacturer serial numbers differ, 0003423675 for 5A-DKK and 093421612 for 5A-DLL. The structured fields on both the BAAA and ASN entries for 8 August 1987 record zero crew fatalities, zero passenger fatalities and zero other fatalities. The narrative text attached to those same entries, however, is the narrative of the November crash, ending with the statement that all occupants were killed. That text appears verbatim on both events, and the ASN revision history shows it added in March 2025 from a social media video source. The reading followed here is that the casualty fields describe this accident and the narrative was carried over from the other one. What this accident was, beyond a written-off airframe on approach to Sebha, is not documented. Occupant numbers are unknown; the zeros in the databases are best read as an absence of casualties rather than an absence of people. No investigation was published.
Final Conclusions
No investigating authority published findings on this accident, and none is known to have been opened. The record here is limited to what two accident databases hold: the date, the airframe, the phase of flight, the destination and the absence of reported fatalities. The altimeter-setting account that circulates against this date belongs, on the evidence available, to the fatal crash of 5A-DLL near Sebha on 16 November 1987.
Video Analysis
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Interesting Facts
- 01The manufacturer serial numbers separate the two airframes: 5A-DKK is MSN 0003423675, built 1980, while 5A-DLL is MSN 093421612. Neither registration can stand in for the other.
- 02Both databases carry zero in every fatality field for this date while the attached narrative says all occupants died. The narrative is identical to the one on the November crash entry.
Known Controversies & Unanswered Questions
The narrative on this entry belongs to a different accident
Reference ↗The text attached to the 8 August 1987 entries in both databases describes the hurried departure under shelling, the incorrectly set altimeter and the death of everyone on board. Every fatality field on the same entries reads zero, and the identical text appears on the 16 November 1987 crash of 5A-DLL, which does carry casualty figures and a crew list. Treating the narrative as belonging to this date would mean accepting a fatal accident with no fatalities recorded in any field of the record describing it.