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An Antonov aircraft has crashed on Saturday night west of Kavala, in the Paleochori area of ​​the Pangai municipality – Greece.

According to local media, a search and rescue operation has already begun, a Meridian Air Cargo An-12, which was on a route from Serbia to Jordan, transporting military material, which is why multiple explosions are heard.

• UPDATE Experts are trying to determine what kind of cargo the Antonov An-12 which has crashed in Greece was carrying.
  
• UPDATE Local officials said 15 firefighters and seven fire engines had been deployed to the crash site but that they could not approach because of the ongoing explosions.

The last trace was given 10 nautical miles west of Kavala, while the aircraft (reg. UR-CIC) has fallen on the slope between Paleochori and Antiphilippi.

Status:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Date:	Saturday 16 July 2022
Time:	22:47
Type:	Antonov An-12BK
Operator:	Meridian
Registration:	UR-CIC
MSN:	01347701
First flight:	1971
Crew:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Aircraft fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	16 km (10 mls) W of Kavala (   Greece)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	Nis Airport (INI/LYNI), Serbia
Destination airport:	Amman-Queen Alia International Airport (AMM/OJAI), Jordan
Flightnumber:	MEM3032

Narrative:
Meridian flight 3032, an Antonov An-12BK cargo plane, crashed near Kavala, Greece.
The aircraft had departed Nis, Serbia, at 18:36 UTC, carrying 11.5 tons of ammunition to Dhaka in Bangladesh. Intermediate stops were planned at Amman, Riyadh and Ahmedabad.

At 21:26 local time (19:26 UTC), while over the Aegean Sea, the aircraft gradually began losing altitude after reaching 21,000 feet.
At 21:29 a 180-degree turn was initiated and the aircraft reached the coast line 12 minutes later. At that point, the aircraft began a right-hand turn with an increasing descent rate. In the final stages of the flight the aircraft reached a descent rate of 3000-4000 feet per minute until it crashed and broke up about 35 km west of Kavala Airport.
Local media report that the flight crew had radioed that one of the engines had failed.