On 23 December, an Ilyushin 76 TD-type transport aircraft flew over Mount Kilimanjaro in north eastern Tanzania at a height of 8,000 metres on its way to Grégoire-Kayibanda Airport in Kigali, Rwanda. After it had landed, the aircraft, which was operated by Kazakhstan-based Fly Sky Airlines, embarked the Rwandan special forces troops and their Turkish-built Cobra armoured vehicles which Rwandan President Paul Kagame wanted deployed in the Central African Republic. Their task was to reinforce the UN
