Air accident of an Antonov An-24 of TAROM at Cluj airport
| Air accident of an Antonov An-24 of TAROM at Cluj airport | |
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 An identical TAROM machine |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Crash landing with fire development |
| place |
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| date | 5th September 1986 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Survivors | 52 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Antonov An-24RW
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| operator |
TAROM
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| Mark |
YR-AMF
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| Departure airport |
Bucharest Otopeni Airport , Romania
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| Destination airport |
Cluj Airport , Romania
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| Passengers | 50 |
| crew | 5 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The Aircraft Accident an Antonov An-24 of TAROM at the airport Cluj took place on September 5, 1986 a domestic airliner of TAROM . One on the Otopeni Airport launched Antonov An-24RW with 50 passengers and five crew members on board sat on this day hard on the runway of the airport, Cluj-Napoca and caught fire. The two flight attendants and all 50 passengers survived in the accident, but all three members of the cockpit crew were killed.
plane
The aircraft was one built in 1972 Antonov An-24RW with the serial number 27307902 , the twin-engine short trips - passenger aircraft was equipped with two turboprop engines of the type Ivchenko AI-24 equipped with an output of 1,877 kW (2,552 hp).
Passengers and crew
50 passengers had taken the flight from Bucharest to Cluj. There was a five-person crew on board the machine, consisting of a flight captain, a first officer, a flight engineer and two flight attendants. One of them, Aurelia Grigore, had already experienced a landing accident of the TAROM on August 7, 1980 , when the captain of a Tupolev Tu-154B-1 (YR-TPH) landed in Nouadhibou ( Mauritania ) in front of the runway in the sea touched down, killing one passenger.
the accident
On landing, the master touched the nose gear first. The Antonov then jumped up several times, breaking the nose landing gear and digging through the fuselage into the cockpit. The machine then skidded down the runway into a grain field. When it stopped, a fire developed. The flight attendants evacuated all passengers while the three pilots were locked in the cockpit. When the flight attendants rushed to the cockpit, it was already enveloped in fire and smoke. Ten minutes after the impact, the first officer appeared at the cockpit window and called out to the helpers that his leg was trapped. Finally he finally managed to free his leg and push himself out of the window. The other two crew members burned in the cockpit. The first officer succumbed to serious burn injuries the day after the accident.
root cause
According to the fire brigade, the cause of the fire was a short circuit in the control instruments in the cockpit. According to the military prosecutor, there had been a file on the accident, but this was apparently destroyed at an unknown time, which is why today's knowledge about the accident is largely based on eyewitness reports.
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- Istoria Celui Mai Tragic Accident Aviatic in Cluj; cum au murit doi piloţi arşi de vii , Actual de Cluj (Romanian), April 27, 2014.
- Crash of an Antonov AN-24RV in Cluj-Napoca: 3 killed , B3A - Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives
- Accident report An-24, YR-AMR in the Aviation Safety Network