Positioning

The crew was performing a positioning flight from Kuybyshev to Moscow with an intermediate stop in Kursk. He started the approach by night and snow falls. In poor visibility, the aircraft dropped below the glide and hit tree tops some 2,500 meters before the inner marker. The aircraft stalled and crashed in flames in a wooded area. While the aircraft was destroyed, all three crew members were unhurt.

On a positioning flight from Velikaya Vulyga to Vinnitsa after crop-spraying operations, the intoxicated crew (a pilot and an aircraft mechanic) forgot to remove the clamps from rudder and stabilizer prior to takeoff. After liftoff, while climbing to a height of some 10-15 metres, the airplane lost height, crashed 500 metres from its parking position, caught fire and burnt out. Both occupants were killed. The pilot had a blood alcohol level of 1.84 ‰ against 1.24 ‰ for the mechanic.

While approaching Innsbruck-Kranebitten Airport in limited visibility, the crew failed to realize his altitude was too low when the airplane struck trees and crashed on a mountain located few km from the airfield. The aircraft was destroyed and both pilots were killed.

The crew was completing a positioning flight from Madrid-Barajas Airport to Las Palmas to pick up German tourists back to Hamburg. While on a night approach to Las Palmas-Gando Airport, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea some 22 km east of Arinaga. Few debris were found floating on water and none of the 10 occupants survived the crash. The wreckage sank by a depth of 1,560 meters.

On final approach to Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport, while on a positioning flight from Athens-Ellinikon Airport, the airplane went out of control and crashed into the sea off Antibes. Both crew members were killed.

The crew was completing a positioning flight from Heathrow to Gatwick. After touchdown on runway 08, the pilot selected spoilers and reverse thrust when the airplane became airborne again then landed back heavily and bounced twice. The fuselage was bent just prior to the wings, a tyre on the nose wheel burst and a wheel separated. The aircraft rolled for several hundred meters before coming to rest. All four crew members escaped uninjured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The aircraft was flying too low and deviated from the prescribed flight path to the south by 15 km while encountering below-minima weather conditions (poor visibility). At a height of 300 meters, the single engine aircraft collided with tree tops on a hill located southwest of Damanka (some 22 km west of Krymsk), crashed, caught fire and burnt out. The copilot survived and the captain was killed.

The pilot encountered unknown technical problems and decided to perform an emergency landing about 40 km from Sa da Bandeira (now Lubango). The aircraft was damaged beyond repair and the pilot was slightly injured.

On final approach to Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport, one of the engine caught fire and exploded. The pilot lost control of the airplane that crashed in the suburb of Santa Ana, in Bello, some 11 km short of runway 20. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot, sole on board, was killed.

On final approach to Boca Raton Airport, the captain attempted to retard the throttles but inadvertently shut down both engines. The airplane lost speed, stalled and struck the ground 900 feet short of runway 04 threshold. On impact, the undercarriage were torn off, the airplane slid for several yards and came to rest in a construction area. Both pilots were seriously injured and the aircraft was destroyed.