Ukraine

While completing a crop-spraying flight from the airstrip of the sovkhoz (state farm) "Udarna Pratsya" in the Shevchenkovo district of the Kharkov region, the inexperienced captain made a sharp turn to the left at low height when control was lost. The airplane crashed in a field located 2 km northwest of Slobodovka. Both pilots were killed and the aircraft was destroyed.

During the takeoff roll at Donetsk Airport, the crew decided to abort for unknown reason. Unable to stop within the remaining distance, the aircraft overran, lost its undercarriage and came to rest. There were no casualties.

On a training flight from Lelekovka at a height of 100 meters in poor visibility when the trainee pilot (who sat at the controls of an An-2 for the first time) left zone No. 2 inadvertently and lost height continuously. When he saw a triangulation tower in front of him he turned steeply to the right. As the instructor interfered too late, aircraft collided with the ground near km 63 of the railway line (close to Velyka Vyska) and came to rest upside down. A pilot was killed while all five other occupants were injured.

Crashed in unknown circumstances in Uzyn, killing the entire crew.

Crashed in unknown circumstances near Uzyn, killing the entire crew.

The crew (pilots, technicians and engineers) were involved in a local test flight at Kiev-Gostomel Airport. The goal of the mission was to test the JATO propulsion system in case of an engine failure on the Antonov AN-8. For this test program, the aircraft was renamed AN-8RU version. Twenty seconds after takeoff, while climbing to a speed of 220 km/h, the JATO system was ignited. Six seconds later, once the speed of 264 km/h was reached, the left engine was voluntarily shut down. At this time, the crew was unable to feather the propeller that went into auto-rotation. The airplane banked left to a 70-80° angle then dove into the ground and crashed in a field located 1,850 meters past the runway end. The aircraft was totally destroyed and all seven crew members were killed.

On a crop-spraying flight from a very small airstrip at Svetilnoye (Borispol district of the Kiev region) when came in too high for landing. Crew failed to go around and forced the aircraft down. It lost speed, came down hard 9 metres before the landing T, nosed over and caught fire. The copilot was killed while both other occupants (among them a mechanic) were injured.

The crew was engaged in a local night training mission at Donetsk Airport. Following five uneventful circuits, the crew started a sixth approach in limited visibility due to poor weather conditions. On final, the pilot-in-command decided to continue the descent after passing the decision height despite the fact he was unable to distinguish the runway lights when the airplane struck trees. It banked right to an angle of 20° and crashed in a field located 380 meters to the right of the approach path and 325 meters from the runway threshold. The aircraft was destroyed and all five crew members were injured. Six days later, the captain died from his injuries.

The aircraft was completing a training mission from Malaya Viska to Kirovograd, carrying five crew members and six passengers, one instructor, three auditors and two employees of the company. While approaching Kirovograd Airport by night, the crew encountered poor weather conditions with a limited visibility due to fog, a worse situation than predicted. On final, while at an altitude of 40 meters, the instructor in command was unable to locate the runway and decided to continue the approach. Doing so, he failed to realize that the airplane banked right to an angle of 20° and lost altitude when it struck the ground and came to rest in flames 400 meters to the right of the approach path. Four crew members were killed and seven other occupants were injured. The aircraft was destroyed.

Th crew was engaged in a local spraying mission for a sovkhoz located in Tynne, in the region of Rivne. In the afternoon, the crew decided to embark six farmers of the sovkhoz for a tour, all of them were intoxicated at that time. Five minutes after takeoff, while at an altitude of 130 meters, the pilot-in-command made a sharp climb, apparently to avoid a chalet when all six passengers who were seating on the floor drifted to the rear of the cabin, causing the CofG to move out of the envelope. In such conditions, the aircraft nosed up sharply, stalled and crashed at high speed in a wheat field. The aircraft was destroyed and all nine occupants were killed.