| 1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown | |
| Occurrence Type: | Incident |
| Date: | 4 September 1985 |
| Summary: | Shot down while en route |
| Site: | Afghanistan |
| Aircraft Type: | Antonov An-26 |
| Operator: | Bakhtar Afghan Airlines |
| Tail Number: | YA-BAM |
| Origin: | Kandahar Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan |
| Destination: | Farah Airport, Farah, Afghanistan |
| Passengers: | 47 |
| Crew: | 5 |
| Fatalities: | 52 |
| Survivors: | 0 |
1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown was on 4 September 1985 when a Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 (registered in Afghanistan as YA-BAM) on a scheduled internal flight from Kandahar to Farah was shot down by a ground-to-air missile. The aircraft had departed from Kandahar Airport and had circled twice close to the airport to gain height and then set course for Farah Airport, it was at a height of 3800 meters and 18.5 km west of Kandahar when it was shot down and destroyed by a surface-to-air missile (SAM). All five crew and 47 passengers were killed.
The aircraft was an Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop airliner that had been built in the Soviet Union.