Transair Georgian Airline Crash (22 September)

On September 22, 1993 a Transair Georgian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 was hit by a missile on takeoff from Sukhumi, in the republic of Georgia.

The plane crashed on the runway, killing 106 of the 132 people on board. The missile had been fired by Abkhazian rebels.

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