A South Sudan Supreme Airlines aircraft with the registration HK-4274, which was performing a charter flight from Pieri to Yuai, South Sudan with 8 passengers and 2 crew, crashed shortly after takeoff last Tuesday.
Juba Airport confirmed that aircraft with the registration HK-4274 never returned to the airport. Jonglei State's Governor too confirmed that the aircraft with the tail number HK-4274 crashed after takeoff.
Following the crash, it was revealed that the accident aircraft was a Let L-410UVP with a fake registration. South Sudan Supreme airline previously used a fake Burundi registration which had been flagged earlier. Before this, the airline used this aircraft with a fake Gabonese registration TR-KSS.
According to the Russian database the airline had acquired an L410 tail number 5Y-DAD (MSN 902436) by the end of 2014. The livery of 5Y-DAD entirely matched that of TR-KSS except for the tail number. The livery of the crashed aircraft also matches the paint scheme from previous pictures of TR-KSS.
Following the accident, South Sudan's president has grounded South Sudan Supreme Airlines with immediate effect on 02nd March 2021.
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