Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky Air Flight 251
| Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 | |
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 The affected machine in 2011 |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Controlled flight into terrain |
| place | 11 km southwest of Palana , Russia
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| date | September 12, 2012 |
| Fatalities | 10 |
| Survivors | 4th |
| Injured | 4th |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
  Antonov An-28
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| operator |
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air
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| Mark |
RA-28715
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| Departure airport |
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport , Russia
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| Destination airport |
Palana Airport , Russia
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| Passengers | 12 |
| crew | 2 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On September 12, 2012, a serious aircraft accident occurred on Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air flight 251 near Palana in the Kamchatka region in eastern Russia . An Antonov An-28 of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air was flown into the area on this flight shortly before landing at Palana Airport , killing the two-man crew and eight passengers.
plane
The aircraft was an Antonow An-28 developed in the Soviet Union by Antonow and built in 1989 with the factory number 1AJ006-25 at the Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze plant in Mielec , Poland . The machine was delivered on December 8, 1989, and three days later it went into commercial operation at Aeroflot . The machine initially carried the aircraft registration number CCCP-28715 , after the collapse of the Soviet Union the registration was changed to RA-28715 , under which the machine went into operation at Korjakavia in 1993 . The aircraft was in storage from February to July 2003 and then continued to be operated by Korjakavia. On August 18, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air took over the machine. The twin-engine regional airliner was equipped with two Gluschenko TWD-10 B turboprop engines , each with an output of 974 hp (716 kW). By the time of the accident, the machine had an operating performance of 11,970 operating hours, which accounted for 8903 take-offs and landings.
Crew and passengers
There was a two-person crew on board, consisting of a flight captain and a first officer. Flight attendants were not provided on this regional flight. The flight from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana, both on the Kamchatka Peninsula , had taken 12 passengers.
Course of the flight and course of the accident
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The flight from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana was based on instrument flight rules . The visibility in Palana was 6000 meters, the cloud cover was 470 meters above sea level. The weather conditions were thus within the safety minimum for approaches to Palana. The crew received clearance to land on runway 11. The approach to Palana consisted of a flight above the minimum safety altitude of 2150 meters to the NDB , flying a holding pattern and then descending. The machine was still 22 kilometers away from the NDB when the crew reported that they were about to fly over it. The pilots then initiated a descent until the machine brushed the treetops at a height of 320 meters above sea level and hit the wooded slope of Mount Pyatibratka at around 12:20 p.m. local time. The two pilots and eight passengers were killed in the accident. Four passengers survived the accident.
root cause
The investigation into the accident was carried out by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK). The cause of the accident was found to be the crew's violation of the applicable approach regulations, which the pilots committed by lowering the aircraft prematurely below the minimum safe altitude while they were flying over mountainous areas in weather conditions that allowed them to see visual reference points on the ground was locked. It was also found that both crew members had been intoxicated . As factors that could have contributed to the accident, the accident investigators identified an inadequate safety policy of the airline, which did not demand professional behavior from its staff with the necessary emphasis. They also found that the pilots did not respond to warnings from the altimeter that the aircraft was too low. The investigators believed that the presence of a ground proximity warning system on board might have prevented the accident.
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- Accident report in the Aviation Safety Network
- Official accident report (Russian) , Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK).
- Operating history of the machine on rzjets.net
- Machine data on russianplanes.net
Coordinates: 58 ° 57 '0 " N , 160 ° 19' 8.4" E