Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), a local affiliate of Al-Qaeda, attacked Mali’s Bamako Airport on September 17 in its largest assault on the capital in years, setting fire to the presidential B737-700(BBJ).

Videos released by the militia and seen by ch-aviation show fighters setting fire to one of the CFM International CFM56 engines of TZ-PRM (msn 30328). The aircraft has been in storage at Bamako and it is not clear whether it suffered any severe damage. JNIM also claimed to have damaged a number of military…

Source: ch aviation
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