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Sunday, January 8, 2017
Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268
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Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268 was a repositioning flight that, on December 29, 2012 at 16:35 local time (12:35 GMT), crashed after overrunning Runway 19 at Moscow Vnukovo International Airport following a flight from Pardubice Airport, Czech Republic. The aircraft, a Tupolev Tu-204, broke up after the overrun, killing 5 of its crew of 8 (there were no passengers). The accident marked the second hull-loss of a Tupolev Tu-204, as well as the type's first (and so far only) fatal accident since its introduction in 1989.
Incident details
According to Vnukovo airport authorities, there were eight crew members onboard and no passengers. There were five fatalities. The aircraft overran the runway, splitting into three sections upon running into a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway, with parts of it, including the cockpit, spilling onto the road. The cockpit section of the aircraft became detached from the rest of the airframe.
It had been snowing prior to the accident and there was a significant cross wind with gusts of up to 29 knots. The aircraft, a Tupolev Tu-204-100B (reg RA-64047, c/n 1450743164047, s/n 047) was built in 2008. The airframe had accumulated 8,672 flight hours in 2,482 cycles, while the captain had more than 14,500 hours of total flying experience, of which more than 3,000 hours were on incident type. The accident was the first hull loss for Red Wings Airlines since its founding in 1999.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the captain, first officer, flight engineer and one flight attendant were killed on impact. Of the remaining four crew members, a female subsequently died of her injuries while the other three were in critical condition.
Those killed in the crash were Capt. Gennady Shmelev, 58, First Officer Evgeniy Astashenkov, 52, Flight Engineer Igor Fisenko, 54 and Flight Attendant Evgeniya Zhigalina, 25. A second Flight Attendant, Tatiana Penkina, 31, died in a Moscow hospital the day after the accident.
The December 29 accident was the second runway overrun involving a Red Wings operated Tu-204-100B in nine days. A Moscow Vnukovo to Novosibirsk flight on December 20, 2012 overran runway 25 at Tolmachevo Airport by 1,150 feet (350 meters) when its brakes failed on landing. As a result of that incident, on December 24 the Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia (Rosaviatsia) issued a mandatory Airworthiness Directive requiring Red Wings and all other operators of the Tu-204 to inspect and apply extra lubrication to the braking system drive mechanism limit switches, located on the main landing shock absorber, "before next departure". On December 28, the day before the fatal Vnukovo accident, Rosaviatsia also formally notified Tupolev, the aircraft's manufacturer, that malfunctioning brakes had caused the Red Wings Tu-204 overrun accident at Novosibirsk. On December 30 Rosaviatsia chief Alexander Neradko announced that a preliminary examination of the aircraft's flight data recorder indicated that the flight had touched down in the proper landing area but, as in the December 20 incident in Novosibirsk, the braking system on RA-64047 appeared to have failed in the fatal Moscow overrun accident as well.
While the accident aircraft has been written off, Red Wings Airlines remains the largest operator of the type, with eight remaining in service. The only other Tu-204 to suffer a hull loss accident was RA-64011 which as Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow on March 22, 2010 as it was completing a non-revenue repositioning operation from Hurghada International Airport in Egypt. While four of the eight crew members were seriously injured, all survived the accident.
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| Date | December 29, 2012 |
| Summary | Overran runway on landing, struck elevated highway and broke up |
| Site | Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia |
| Passengers | 0 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 5 |
| Survivors | 3 |
| Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-204-100B |
| Operator | Red Wings Airlines |
| Registration | RA-64047 |
| Flight origin | Pardubice Airport, Pardubice, Czech Republic |
| Destination | Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia |
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Air Bagan Flight 11
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Air Bagan Flight 11 was a scheduled domestic flight in Myanmar, operated by Air Bagan, from Yangon to Heho that, on 25 December 2012, while attempting to land at Heho Airport, struck power lines, crash landed on a road and came to a stop in a paddy field and caught on fire. Trees on either side of the road caused the wings to separate. The aircraft operating the flight was a Fokker 100 and carrying 65 passengers, of whom one was killed and nine injured. A motorcyclist was struck and killed and another person on the ground was injured. The cause of the accident is as yet unclear; it was reported that the pilots attempted to land the aircraft on the road by mistake, but one eyewitness was quoted as saying that the aircraft was already on fire before the crash. The pilots were injured and received hospital treatment.
Two Britons, a Korean man and two Americans were reported to be among the passengers who were injured.
Investigation
The aircraft's "black box" flight recorder was sent to Australian Transport Safety Bureau for analysis. The Myanmar Information Ministry stated that the pilots mistook a road for the airport's runway in conditions described by the airline as heavy fog and landed the aircraft in a rice field.
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| Date | 25 December 2012 |
| Summary | Flew Through Thick fog before Striking power lines on approach and crash landing |
| Site | Heho, Myanmar |
| Passengers | 65 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 2 (1 on ground) |
| Survivors | 70 |
| Aircraft type | Fokker 100 |
| Operator | Air Bagan |
| Registration | XY-AGC |
| Flight origin | Yangon International Airport, Yangon, Myanmar |
| Destination | Heho Airport, Heho, Myanmar |
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2012 Aéro-Service Ilyushin Il-76T crash
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The 2012 Aéro-Services Ilyushin Il-76 crash occurred on 30 November 2012 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. An Ilyushin Il-76T freighter, registration EK-76300, owned and operated by the Armenian cargo airline Air Highnesses on behalf of Congolese cargo airline Aéro-Service was flying from Pointe Noire Airport to Maya-Maya Airport in the Republic of the Congo. The aircraft was attempting to land on runway 5L in heavy rain, when it clipped high trees about 1000 meters from the runway threshold and disintegrated over 500 meters. The aircraft caught fire and was destroyed, killing all five Armenian crew and an Armenian policeman present on board, as well as 26 local residents, injuring a further 14 as to require hospitalization. The aircraft was initially mistakenly attributed to Trans Air Congo.
Investigation
On 28 February 2013, the Interstate Aviation Committee received the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder for analysis on behalf of the Ministry of Transport of Congo. Both recorders show mechanical damage as a result of the impact. The IAC is working to reconstruct and download the data.
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| Date | 30 November 2012 |
| Summary | Clipped trees and crashed during final approach |
| Site | Maya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo |
| Passengers | 1 |
| Crew | 5 |
| Fatalities | 32 (6 + 26 on ground) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Ilyushin Il-76T |
| Operator | Air Highnesses on behalf of Aéro-Service |
| Registration | EK-76300 |
| Flight origin | Pointe Noire Airport |
| Destination | Maya-Maya Airport |
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FlyMontserrat Flight 107
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FlyMontserrat Flight 107 was a short haul flight from V. C. Bird International Airport, Antigua to John A. Osborne Airport, Montserrat on 7 October 2012. The flight was being undertaken by a Britten-Norman Islander, registration VP-MON with one crew and three passengers on board. The flight crashed shortly after take off near the end of the runway. Three of the four passengers and crew died in the crash.
Accident
At 16:15 local time FlyMontserrat Flight 107 was cleared for take off from runway 07 at V. C. Bird International Airport. Shortly after the Islander took off it started to yaw to the right and stopped climbing. The aircraft continued rolling to the right and lost height, it hit the ground and cartwheeled before coming to rest. The pilot and one passenger were killed on impact while two passengers were injured and were taken to the hospital. However, one of the two injured passengers later died.
Investigation
The Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA) is responsible for regulation and oversight of aviation in Antigua, where the accident occurred. Montserrat does not have its own investigators. As a British Overseas Territory this function is normally performed by the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch, which sent a team to investigate the cause of the crash. Bad weather conditions were reported for the time prior to the accident, however conditions were reported as good at time of takeoff. A preliminary report by the ECCAA was released on 13 October 2012 saying that after examining the wreckage of the aircraft, it showed that the right engine was not producing power and the propeller was not feathered. The fuel was examined and found that the fuel system showed contamination with significant quantities of water. On 4 July 2013 the AAIB preliminary results of the investigation setting out changes to prevent water contamination of fuel system and an Airworthiness Directive was issued by EASA to require a check if the correct fuel filler cap had been installed. Additionally, the AAIB decided to issue a safety recommendation to EASA.
It is recommended that the European Aviation Safety Agency takes action to require that Britten-Norman Islander aircraft are equipped with fuel suction filter assemblies which minimise the likelihood of any water present in the fuel tank sumps being fed to the engines.
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| Date | 7 October 2012 |
| Summary | Control lost following engine failure during or immediately after takeoff |
| Site | V. C. Bird International Airport, Antigua and Barbuda |
| Passengers | 3 |
| Crew | 1 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Survivors | 1 |
| Aircraft type | Britten-Norman Islander |
| Operator | FlyMontserrat |
| Registration | VP-MON |
| Flight origin | V. C. Bird International Airport |
| Destination | John A. Osborne Airport |
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Sita Air Flight 601
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Sita Air Flight 601 was a Nepalese domestic flight, due to be operated with a Dornier 228, that crashed on 28 September 2012, three minutes after it departed Tribhuvan International Airport, killing all 19 people on board.
Accident
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Dornier 228-202, registration 9N-AHA, serial number 8123; it was due to operate a domestic scheduled Kathmandu-Lukla flight. Shortly after departing Tribhuvan International Airport, the pilot reported technical issues with the aircraft, and requested to fly it back to the airport. A suspected bird strike occurred, as the aircraft may have hit a vulture. Three minutes after take-off, on the way back to the airport, the aircraft crashed on the banks of the Manohara river and caught fire. All 19 people on board perished in the accident. It was the second deadly accident to occur in Nepal in 2012, and the last of at least ten fatal crashes since 2002
A ground and air search for the aircraft was initiated, but was called off as night fell. On 10 May at 09:00 (02:00 UTC), the wreckage of the Sukhoi Superjet was found on Mount Salak.It is only known that the aircraft had been flying on a clockwise flightpath around the mountain, towards Jakarta, before the crash.Preliminary reports indicated that the aircraft had hit the edge of a cliff at an elevation of 6,270 feet (1,910 m), slid down a slope and came to rest at an elevation of 5,200 feet (1,600 m). Despite appearing relatively intact from the air, the aircraft sustained substantial damage, and there was no sign of survivors. The site of the accident was not accessible by air and no rescuers had reached the site by nightfall on 10 May. Multiple groups of rescue personnel attempted to reach the wreckage on foot.
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| Date | 28 September 2012 |
| Summary | Impacted ground, burst into flames following bird strike that caused structural damage on climb-out |
| Site | Madhyapur, Bhaktapur District, Nepal |
| Passengers | 16 |
| Crew | 3 |
| Fatalities | 19 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Dornier Do 228 |
| Operator | Sita Air |
| Registration | 9N-AHA |
| Flight origin | Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Destination | Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Lukla, Solukhumbu District, Nepal |
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Saturday, January 7, 2017
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251
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On 12 September 2012 at about 12:20 local time (00:20 UTC), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251, operated by an Antonov An-28, crashed while attempting to land at Palana Airport in Russia. Both pilots were killed and 8 of the 12 passengers perished. All 4 survivors were seriously injured. The aircraft descended below minima on approach in instrument meteorological conditions and impacted a forested slope.
An investigation by the Interstate Aviation Committee revealed that both pilots were intoxicated and that the plane was "far off course". The final report identified the following contributing factors: low level of crew discipline and inadequate supervision by the airline; the crew did not react knowing they were flying too low; and the aircraft was not equipped with GPWS.
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| Date | 12 September 2012 |
| Summary | Impacted forested slope on approach to land |
| Site | Palana Airport, Koryak Okrug, Russia |
| Passengers | 12 |
| Crew | 2 |
| Fatalities | 10 |
| Survivors | 4[1] |
| Aircraft type | Antonov An-28 |
| Operator | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise |
| Registration | RA-28715 |
| Flight origin | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport, Russia |
| Destination | Palana Airport |
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