Shelopugino | Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives

During the last segment, at a height of about six metres, the crew reduced engine power to idle, causing the aircraft to sink rapidly and to struck the runway surface with a positive acceleration of 4,25 g. All 13 occupants escaped uninjured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Crash of an Antonov AN-2 near Shelopugino: 4 killed

Date & Time: May 31, 1981 at 1815 LT

Type of aircraft:

Antonov AN-2

Operator:

Registration:

CCCP-55617

Flight Phase:

Flight

Flight Type:

Private

Survivors:

Site:

Plain, Valley

Schedule:

Shelopugino - Shelopugino

MSN:

1 127 473 15

YOM:

1959

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Crew on board:

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Pax on board:

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Total fatalities:

Aircraft flight hours:

16990

Circumstances:

Three pilots and a passenger departed Shelopugino at 1807LT on an unauthorized local flight. After takeoff, the pilot-in-command followed the Turov River at an altitude of 100-150 meters when he initiated hazardous manoeuvres. The airplane climbed and adopted a high nose-up attitude when it stalled, plunged into the earth and crashed in a vertical (90° angle) attitude about 10 km south of Shelopugino. The aircraft was totally destroyed upon impact and all four occupants were killed.

Probable cause:

It was determined that the pilot-in-command was intoxicated as well as the pilot supervisor and the passenger. The copilot was not intoxicated. Analysis revealed a level of 2,3‰ of alcohol in the pilot-in-command blood, 1‰ in the pilot supervisor blood and 1,2‰ in the passenger blood.