What happened
During a scheduled cargo operation, an unidentified aircraft vanished from radar tracking while maintaining its cruising altitude. Following the loss of contact, search efforts located the wreckage within a desert region situated near Barentu. There were no distress signals transmitted by the crew before the aircraft went offline.
The crash resulted in five fatalities, with no survivors reported among the occupants. The debris field was recovered in the remote desert landscape, marking the end of the flight's trajectory.
Findings
Official investigations concluded that the destruction of the aircraft was caused by an onboard bomb explosion while the plane was in flight.