"Remembering Father Who Pass a Way For South Sudanese Struggle

The Aircraft as a Russian-made transport plane Antonov 32.

Late: Dr. Timothy
Dr. Timothy Tongyik Tutlam died in the plane crash in Nasir on February 12, 1998, with many other government officials including Sudan’s first vice president.

He was a Nuer educated as a medical doctor. He was in the SPLA before he joined SSIM in 1992, where he served as director of RASS, Dr. Timothy was elected in Upper Nile as a governor.

On February 12, 1998 Dr. Timothy Tutlam the former governor of Upper Nile was killed in a plane crash in a failed landing at Nasir airport 800 km south East of Khartoum airport near the Ethiopian border. The plane was carrying 57 senior military and political leaders, including Arok Thon Arok, one of the most prominent former rebels, whose group signed the peace accord with Khartoum, was among the 26 people killed.

The plane apparently tried to land on a small runway in the town of Nasir about 435 miles from the capital near the Sobat River a tributary of the White Nile and not far from the Ethiopian border.

The pilot lost control at Nasir airport runway, and slide into the Sobate River, and then twenty six people out of fifty seven passengers were drowned in river, including father Dr. Timothy.

Here are the names of the Sudanese officials who were killed in plan crashed with our father Dr .Timothy Tutlam:

  1. Lt-Gen al-Zubair Muhammad, the first vice president of republic of Sudan
  2. Brig Arok Thon Arok, the South Sudan United Democratic Salvation Front, signatory of the Khartoum peace agreement
  3. Musa Sidahmed, the director of the Supreme Council for Peace Engineer
  4. Muhammad Ahmed Taha, the head of States' Development & Peace Organization
  5. Police Maj-Gen Dirar Abdullah Abbas
  6. Lt-Col al-Fatih Nurein, the deputy head of palace protocol
  7. Osman Ibrahim Bura'ie, Zubeir's secretary
  8. Lt-Col Jamal Fagiri, the director of al-Zubair's Office
  9. Security Lt-Col Abdallah Babikir
  10. Security officer Abd al-Rahman al-Bagir
  11. Police Col Elija Manok
  12. Dr Timothy Tutlan, the Upper Nile Governor
  13. Abd al-Salaam Suleiman, Islamic
  14. Organization Officer Abdallah Babikir,
  15. General Security Forces Brig Taha al-Mahi
  16. Lt-Col Fath al-Rahman al-Sadiq
  17. Hashim al-Haj, television journalist
  18. al-Hadi Sidahmed, television journalist
  19. Mutasim Rustum
  20. Samuel Fashoda and so more>> >>

Dr. Timothy Tongyik Tutlam's the educational background, and service from South Sudanese first movement

1972, he graduated from Haile Sellassie I University's

1988, he graduated from Addis Ababa University of Medicine

1999, serving the Sudanese in Ethiopia as a medical doctor

1992, Director RASS

1998, Governor of Great Upper Nile