Interflug IL-18's were rare but very welcome visitors to LHR in the 1980's, usually on freight runs. This 1968-vintage example went to Polnippon in 1990 as SP-FNC then became Sharjah-based with Air Cess in 1997. Exported to Zaire, it was destroyed in an attack at Kalemie in 1998 but the wreckage reportedly remains
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