There seems to be some questions regarding the reg of the aircraft and the airline. S9-TLZ is what's painted on the rear part of the fuselage (in the red stripe), but that reg isn't active in the official registry it seems. Is this really the official S9 registry? :
http://www.inac.st/index.php/ct-menu-item-45 If so, there are only two S9 regged frames, and they're not Antonovs. Also, the airline "South Supreme Airlines" seems to have ceased its operations in October 2015. Is there a way to verify that? Have they restarted operations? Is this actually an aircraft that was deregistered and shouldn't fly or is it registered somewhere else, just that we can't see that reg in the pictures?
https://radiotamazuj.org/en/article/air ... outh-sudanThere seems to be two An-26 frames owned by "South Supreme Airlines" in Sudan/South Sudan according to
http://rzjets.net:
EK-26310 An-26 msn 13310 South Supreme Airlines
http://russianplanes.net/id97453EK-26804 An-26 msn 8004 Sudan South Supreme Airlines
http://russianplanes.net/id132572Comparing the tail paintings of the two above and the accident plane, it seems the painting on the accident plane is quite different. Which one is it, is it really one of the two EK regged frames? I can't find any history on the S9-TLZ reg!
Listed above in this thread, but not the same airline(?):
EK-26710 An-26 msn 12710 South Airlines (Armenia)
/Fredrik