Pulkovo Airlines flight 9560
| Pulkovo Airlines flight 9560 | |
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 A structurally identical machine in the painting of the Pulkovo Airlines at the time |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Loss of control after mechanical failure at start |
| place | at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport , Russia
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| date | July 28, 2002 |
| Fatalities | 14th |
| Survivors | 2 |
| Injured | 2 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Ilyushin Il-86
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| operator |
Pulkovo Airlines
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| Mark |
RA-86060
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| Departure airport |
Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport , Russia
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| 1. Stopover |
Pulkovo Airport , Russia
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| 2. Stopover |
Sochi Airport , Russia
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| Destination airport |
Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport , Russia
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| Passengers | 0 |
| crew | 16 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On July 28, 2002, an Ilyushin Il-86 of Pulkovo Airlines crashed on Pulkovo Airlines flight 9560 (flight number IATA : FV9560 , ICAO : PLK9560 , radio call sign: Pulkovo 9560 ) shortly after taking off from Moscow-Sheremetyevo airport . 14 out of 16 people on board the machine were killed in the accident.
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The aircraft used on the flight was a 21-year-old Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-86 that made its maiden flight in 1981. The machine had the factory number 51483203027 and the model serial number 027. The roll-out of the machine at the Voronezh Aircraft Plant (WASO) took place on October 29, 1983, the machine was delivered to Aeroflot on November 23, 1983 . The Ilyushin had the Soviet aircraft registration CCCP-86060 when it was commissioned . In 1992 Pulkovo Airlines took over the machine and registered it with the new Russian aircraft registration number RA-86060 . The four - engine, long - range, wide- bodied aircraft was equipped with four Kuznetsov NK-86 turbojet engines. By the time of the accident, the machine had had a total operating performance of 18,363 hours.
Inmates
There was a crew of 16 on board. Since it was a positioning flight, no passengers flew with it.
- The captain was the 51-year-old Konstantin Ivanovich Ivanov. He had 13,000 hours of flight experience, including 5900 hours with the Ilyushin Il-86. Of these, he had flown 4000 hours in the role of flight captain.
- First officer was the 52-year-old Vladimir Andreevich Voronov. His 11,300 hours of flight experience included more than 2,200 hours with the Ilyushin Il-86.
- The on-board navigator was the 51-year-old Valery Andreyevich Shcherbina. He had 13,000 hours of flight experience, including 7100 hours in the cockpit of the Ilyushin Il-86.
- The flight engineer was the 60-year-old Boris Nikolayevich Kuschnerow. He had 14,000 hours of flight experience, of which he had completed more than 6000 hours with the Ilyushin Il-86.
- The purser was 40-year-old Natalija Borisovna Fetisova
- Flight attendants were 49-year-old Tatyana Vasilyevna Fomushkina, 42-year-old Galina Valentinovna Anashkina, 31-year-old Sergei Yurevich Trakovets, 28-year-old Aleksandr Viktorovich Molchanov, 47-year-old Galina Vladimirovna Kulikova, and Galina Egorovna Olgaktorova Naumowa, 41-year-old Tatiana Mojsejewa, and 34-year-old Arina Vinogradova.
The crew also included Aleksandr Pawlowitsch Timofejew and Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Lyukonen, they were engineers from the aeronautical engineering service who were on their way to carry out operational maintenance at transit airports.
Flight plan
The machine was located at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport after it had previously been used in charter operations between Moscow and Sochi . On this day, the last positioning flight to the home airport Pulkowo near St. Petersburg was to be carried out with the machine . The aircraft's take-off weight was 150 tons, about 66 tons below the maximum take-off weight.
the accident
After a successful take-off run, the machine took off at a speed of 350 km / h and initially began to climb normally. Two seconds after take-off, the horizontal stabilizer suddenly moved to the "down" position as far as it would go. The pilots did not have time to react to this anomaly and to access the emergency control of the horizontal stabilizer trim. The machine rolled to the left, stalled and fell to the ground from a height of 200 meters. The machine went up in flames after the impact.
Victim
In the accident, 14 of the 16 crew members, including all four members of the cockpit crew, both engineers and eight of the ten flight attendants were killed. Only the flight attendants Tatiana Mojsejewa and Arina Winogradowa survived.
Accident investigation
The investigation initially revealed that the flight along the Pulkovo – Sheremetyevo – Sochi – Sheremetyevo route had taken place without any special incidents. After the passengers from Sochi disembarked at Sheremetyevo Airport, the crew began preparing the aircraft for the positioning flight to Pulkovo base airport before the flight. There was no cargo on board. The flight preparation was carried out completely by the crew, the subsequent maintenance was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the maintenance plan for machines of the type Il-86. Before the flight, the crew carried out a functional check of all components in accordance with the regulations. In this test, the oars were all functional. Before take-off, the horizontal stabilizer was set to −3.5 degrees, which contradicted the prescribed procedures. A setting between −1.5 degrees and +1.8 degrees would have been prescribed for the start.
In investigating the causes of the abnormal stabilizer setting, it was found that airline pilots routinely selected this setting because they wanted maximum efficiency in the initial climb. This practice resulted from the false assumption that setting the horizontal stabilizer to −3.5 degrees would achieve the optimum angle of climb.
The investigation committee could not determine what had led to the horizontal stabilizer shifting to the end position after the start. It was assumed that this was caused by a pilot error.
An investigation of 2,000 flights carried out by the aircraft involved in the accident revealed numerous violations of regulations on operational safety. Most of the violations involved the adjustment of the horizontal stabilizer.
Commemoration
Nine of the crash victims were buried in a communal grave in St. Petersburg. A memorial with the names of the victims was also set up at the crash site.
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- Accident report Il-86, RA-86060 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Accident report Il-86, RA-86060 on airdisaster.ru (Russian)
- Operating history of the machine on russianplanes.net (in Russian)
Coordinates: 55 ° 59 ′ 18 ″ N , 37 ° 28 ′ 59 ″ E