[1] During the Second Sudanese Civil War, on 5 August 1986, the SPLA militants announced they would shoot down all unauthorized military or civilian aircraft, claiming that the government was using them to transport soldiers and weapons.

[2] Approximately at the time of the 1986 shootdown the militants singled out one humanitarian charter company, alleging that the company had a government contract "to spy on and take aerial photographs of" rebel operations.

[2] In May 1986 the militants brought down a passenger plane, killing all 13 aboard.

[1] Shortly after takeoff from Malakal the aircraft was brought down by a Soviet-made Strela 2 surface-to-air missile,[1] fired by a Shilluk contingent of the SPLA.

According to contemporary press reports, the missile was captured from the Sudanese army.