As the intensity of battles between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces to control the capital has increased, with the army making recent military advances in Khartoum and central Sudan, the Sudanese army announced on the evening of Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the crash of a military aircraft during takeoff from an airport west of Khartoum, resulting in the death and injury of both military personnel and civilians. By Wednesday morning, February 26, the death toll had risen to 46 dead and 10 injured.