On April 11, 2008, Kata Air Transport Flight 007, killed eight crew when a departing Sudanese cargo flight to Turkey turned back and crashed short of the runway.
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] but it was later determined that there were four Ukrainian and four Moldovan citizens.[3]
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 fuel.[4]