Aircraft accidents, incidents and air crashes in the USSR and Russia. The crash of the Yak-42 aircraft with the Lokomotiv Holding Company in the Yaroslavl region.
The Yak-40 plane crashed in the evening in Tashkent. Earlier it was reported that the An-24 plane crashed.
37 people died in the plane crash - 32 passengers and 5 crew members. This is stated in a government message released in Tashkent late on Tuesday evening. Previously, information was received about 36 deaths.
The plane belonged to the Uzbekistan Airways company (Uzbekistan Airways).
According to this message, at 19:27 local time, a Yak-40 plane flying on a Termez-Tashkent flight crashed during landing near Tashkent airport.
“It fell on the runway and exploded,” Tashkent airport told Reuters.
The plane was operating flight 1154 Termez-Tashkent.
“Black boxes” were found at the crash site of the Yak-40 plane at Tashkent airport.
The Yak-40 plane crashed onto the runway in close proximity to residential areas of the city. The crash site is separated from nearby houses by no more than 100 meters. There are no reports of casualties among the population. The area where the plane crashed has been cordoned off by police.
According to forensic experts, the bodies of all the victims were badly burned.
In particular, it became known that during landing, instead of the long-range drive, the crew landed on the short-range drive. Moreover, at an altitude of 60 m, the pilots turned on the reverse - the braking system, which should be activated only when the aircraft’s wheels touch the runway, since when the reverse is turned on, the flaps in the nozzles close.
When the crew realized their mistake, they tried to gain altitude, but they no longer had the required 30 seconds that are needed after the reverse is removed. The plane passed almost the entire runway at an altitude of 60 meters, thinking that this was the beginning of the runway.
The plane, having flown the entire length of the runway, crashed into a concrete fence at a height of 2 m. For reasons that have not yet been established, the Yak-40 chassis never touched the ground. Having broken through the fence, the plane caught fire and crashed into the Kara-Su canal.
According to Reuters, parts of the victims are scattered over a large area near the Tashkent airport. The agency's correspondent witnessed how, a few hours after the disaster, rescuers collected parts of the bodies of the victims into large bags.
There is heavy fog in the airport area, but airport officials say visibility was sufficient for the plane to land.
As the Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan Rashitjon Kadyrov said, the crashed Yak-40, when landing at an altitude of two meters, lost its landing gear, it hit the concrete fence of the runway and exploded. Previously, fog was considered the main cause of the disaster.
The General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic opened a criminal case on the fact of the plane crash under Article 260, part 3, paragraphs “a” and “b”, of the Criminal Code of the Republic - “violation of traffic safety rules and operation of railway, sea, river or air transport, resulting in human casualties.” victims,” Kadyrov said.
Speaking about the technical condition of the aircraft, Rashitjon Kadyrov said that the aircraft was produced in 1975, its service life was 38 thousand hours, and at the time of the disaster 37 thousand had been worked. The last time the plane was repaired was in 1999 in Minsk. At the same time, more than a thousand hours of engine life remained, the Prosecutor General noted.
According to him, the plane was flown by an experienced crew. The crew commander, Alexander Aleksanov, born in 1960, a native of the Kemerovo region, had flight experience since September 16, 1977, Kadyrov said.
More than a hundred people have already been questioned in the case. Personal belongings of passengers were confiscated from the scene of the incident and appropriate examinations are being carried out. The aircraft wreckage will be evacuated to an aircraft hangar, where it will be further examined.
A government commission has been created to investigate the circumstances and causes of the disaster, which has already begun work.
The leadership of Uzbekistan expressed condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
The representative of the State Civil Aviation Service (SCAS) Vladimir Masenkov said that Uzbekistan Airlines “is one of the strongest airlines in the CIS after the collapse of the USSR.”
“It’s very unfortunate that such a disaster occurred in this airline,” Masenkov said.
According to an employee of the representative office, the IAC will deal with the circumstances of the Yak-40 crash in Tashkent. The IAC includes specialists from all CIS countries. The Baltic countries are represented on the committee by observers.
The crew and passengers of the Yak-40 plane - 37 people - were burned alive in a plane crash on the tarmac of Tashkent airport.
The half-filled fuel tanks exploded, leaving no chance for passengers and crew to survive.
According to preliminary data, there were no Russian citizens on board the Uzbek Airlines Yak-40 plane that crashed near Tashkent. Konstantin Mineev, head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Uzbekistan, told RIA Novosti about this by phone.
The head of the UN Office in Uzbekistan, Richard Conroy, was on board the Yak-40 aircraft. RIA Novosti was informed about this by the press service of the UN headquarters in New York.
Among those killed in the plane crash near Tashkent was a representative of an American humanitarian organization, US citizen Richard Penner. The Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan, Rashitjon Kadyrov, told reporters about this on Wednesday. Among the dead were also two Afghan citizens.
The Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan clarified that 37 people died as a result of the disaster:
32 men, four women and one child (5 dead - aircraft crew).
Today we can name several possible causes of the accident. In addition to the technical malfunction that Prosecutor General Kadyrov spoke about, bad weather could have led to the disaster: at the time of landing at Tashkent airport there was such thick fog that dispatchers advised pilots of all flights to land in Samarkand.
Note that the words of eyewitnesses refute both of these assumptions: they claim that the plane caught fire in the air, and not after hitting the fence. In this case, there was obviously some kind of explosion on board the Yak-40, which means there could have been a terrorist attack. None of these versions can be ruled out yet.
Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan
On January 13, 2004, at the Tashkent airport there was a plane crash of a Yak-40 aircraft of the NAC Uzbekistan Airways, operating flight No. NU-1154 on the Termez-Tashkent route. 37 people were killed, including 5 crew members.
In connection with the tragic events that led to the disaster and loss of life, the Cabinet of Ministers decides:
1. Create a government commission to investigate the causes of the plane crash.
Grant the Commission the right to involve in the investigation of the causes of the plane crash and the liquidation of its consequences specialists and experts from relevant ministries and departments who can assist in the qualified implementation of these works.
2. Government commission:
— organize work to excavate and examine the wreckage of the aircraft, extract and conduct a forensic medical examination of the bodies of the dead, as well as establish their identities;
— ensure the delivery of the bodies of the deceased to their relatives at their place of residence, provide assistance and take part in organizing and conducting funerals;
— conduct an in-depth investigation of the circumstances leading to the accident. The Prosecutor General's Office should initiate a criminal case in accordance with the law into the plane crash and ensure that the necessary operational and investigative measures are carried out;
— to provide, in the prescribed manner, material and other assistance to the families of citizens who died as a result of the plane crash;
— report on the results of the work done and proposals to eliminate such incidents in the future by January 25, 2004.
3. Declare January 15, 2004 throughout the country a day of mourning for the citizens killed in the plane crash.
Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers
Islam KARIMOV.
Also read the decision of the commission investigating the plane crash.
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Information: NEWSru.com, Magnolia TV, Avia.ru, Uzreport.com
The photo shows a Yak-40 of another airline.
Twenty-five years ago, the largest plane crash in the history of aviation in Tajikistan occurred in Khorog. Sputnik Tajikistan remembers this tragic date.
Flight of the Yak-40 - everything went according to plan
It was piloted by a crew that included commander Mels Siyarov, co-pilot Yuri Demin and flight mechanic Nizomiddin Buriev.
Flight attendant Kayumov also worked in the cabin, and Evgeniy Babajanov was the squad’s navigator.
Civil war in Tajikistan
At that time, there was a civil war in Tajikistan, and Khorog was captured by militants. Several hundred civilians gathered at the airport, wanting to leave the city on the same Yak-40 flight.
During the landing, armed militants intervened in the situation. Threatening with weapons, they began to direct the seating process at their own discretion, trying to put as many people on board as possible. The crew of the plane tried to reason with them, pointing out that the plane was not designed for such a number of passengers, but in vain.
A total of 81 passengers boarded the plane, although the plane was designed for only 28 seats. This is what caused the plane crash.
The board turned out to be heavily overloaded - the maximum take-off weight was exceeded by as much as three tons. The crew refused to fly. However, after the threat of execution, the pilots were forced to agree.
The dispatcher, who was supposed to control the landing, was not even allowed to approach the ramp by armed people.
However, not everyone was able to board the plane: the militants sent some people back to the airport.
Yak-40 plane crash in Khorog
The overload was felt during the first minutes of takeoff. A plane crash was inevitable. The plane covered almost the entire runway - 1,629 meters. The Yak-40 was unable to get off the ground and rolled out of the runway.
After this, the accelerated aircraft crashed into the parapet of a shallow ditch with its left strut, and then collided with a stone 60 cm high.
After another 30 meters, the left wheel of the Yak-40 fell into a ravine and collapsed, and the right one hit a meter-high concrete pillbox, after which the plane with all the passengers crashed into the ravine of the Pyanj River.
Consequences of the Yak-40 plane crash
The plane crash killed 82 passengers and crew members, including 14 children. The bodies of 80 dead were found directly at the site of the Yak-40 crash. Surprisingly, six people were found alive.
Two crew members later died in hospital, in particular 36-year-old flight mechanic Nizomiddin Buriev, who was taken to a hospital in Dushanbe in serious condition. Dozens of people from all parts of the city came to say goodbye to him.
This is the largest disaster on the territory of Tajikistan and in the history of Yak-40 aircraft. Immediately after the incident, all passenger flights in Khorog were stopped until the end of the civil war.
A year ago, on September 7, 2011, a Yak-42D passenger aircraft with tail number RA-42434 of JSC Aviation Company Yak Service, performing an irregular international flight to transport passengers on the route Yaroslavl (Tunosha) - Minsk, from Tunosha airport in Yaroslavskaya areas.
There were 45 people on board the plane: the team of the Yaroslavl hockey club "Lokomotiv" - 37 passengers - and eight crew members. The players of the main team of the hockey team were heading to Minsk, where the next day a game was scheduled with the Dynamo hockey club - Lokomotiv's first match of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) season.
Yaroslav Neelov
Hockey club "Lokomotiv" (Yaroslavl)
In normal weather conditions, the plane began its takeoff run on the runway at Tunoshna airport.
The plane gained an altitude of no more than five to six meters, then collided with the localizer antenna system (LOB), located 435 meters from the end of the runway and having a height of about three meters, with the LOC container, then with an intense left roll collided with the base of the approach lights ( airfield lighting system) and trees, hit the ground approximately 600 meters from the end of the runway, on the bank of the Tunoshonka River, and collapsed. The bulk of the plane's fragments were scattered at a distance of 800-900 meters from the end of the runway.
43 people died immediately (39 people - from instant mechanical injuries to the body, three people - due to drowning, one person died due to thermal injuries to the body).
Only two survived - hockey player Alexander Galimov and flight engineer Alexander Sizov. Both ended up in the river after the plane crashed. Galimov was conscious, was able to walk away from the burning plane himself and gave his name to the police.
The survivors were hospitalized.
The athlete, who received burns to 90% of his body, was taken to the burn department of the Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery in Moscow, where he died on September 12.
Sizov the day after the disaster at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine in Moscow with multiple fractures of the ribs, a comminuted fracture of the femur, a penetrating head wound with brain damage and burns to 15% of the body. The patient's condition was extremely serious.
The forward of the Lokomotiv team, 20-year-old Maxim Zyuzyakin, and the Finnish goalkeeper coach Jorma Valtonen, who worked at the Yaroslavl club, survived for the match in Minsk.
On September 7, the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) formed a commission to investigate the causes and circumstances of the disaster.
A criminal case was initiated into the disaster under Part 3 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. An investigation into a technical malfunction of the aircraft and a pilot error.
Due to the death of the main team, the Lokomotiv team joined the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in the 2011-2012 season.
September 10 at the Yaroslavl Ice Sports Palace. 14 people were buried directly in Yaroslavl, the bodies of the remaining victims were transported to other cities and countries. Among the dead were citizens of Ukraine, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Sweden and Latvia.
RIA News. Vladimir Terentyev
"Lokomotiv" as we will remember it
By September 15, Rostransnadzor had inspected all 15 airlines operating Yak-42 aircraft. As a result of the inspection, three aircraft were suspended from flights, and a total of 28 Yak-42 aircraft were inspected.
On September 22, Alexander Sizov, a ground engineer for aviation and radio-electronic equipment who survived the crash, was interrogated by Georgy Yachmenev, Deputy Chairman of the MAK for Aircraft Accident Investigation, Honored Pilot of the USSR. According to Alexander Sizov, there were no comments on the operation of the aircraft either during preparation for the flight or during takeoff. Sizov noted that he did not see who was flying the plane during takeoff. Sizov did not remember the moment of the disaster itself; he only remembered how the airliner took off, and the next moment he woke up in the water, where spilled kerosene was burning.
According to Sizov’s testimony, the IAC clarified the actual placement of passengers and luggage: the team’s management and coaches were in the front cabin, the team was in the second cabin, and the bulk of the luggage was loaded into the rear trunk. This means that the plane was unable to take off normally due to a misalignment, since the bulk of the passengers were allegedly in the front cabin.
At the beginning of October 2011, flight engineer Alexander Sizov successfully underwent plastic surgery on his face and neck.
RIA News. Yaroslav Neelov
Memorial complex to members of the Lokomotiv hockey club who died in a plane crash on September 7, 2011, at the Leontyevskoye cemetery in Yaroslavl.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Boeing 747-200 crash
269 dead
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On September 1, 1983, a Soviet Su-15 fighter shot down a passenger Boeing 747 of the South Korean airline Korean Air Lines, which deviated 500 km from the main route and crossed the border with the USSR. The crash killed 246 passengers and 23 crew members; no one survived. US Representative Larry McDonald was on board.
This incident caused a serious confrontation between the USA and the USSR. According to an investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the most likely cause of the flight path deviation was that KAL007's pilots had incorrectly configured the autopilot and then failed to perform proper checks to verify the current position.
Tu-154 crash near Uchkuduk
200 dead
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On July 10, 1985, regular flight No. 7425 Karshi—Ufa—Leningrad, having gained a height of 11,600 m, lost speed, fell into a flat tailspin and collided with the surface of the earth near the village of Kokpatas, 30 km northeast of the city of Uchkuduk.
All 200 people on board were killed, including 9 crew members. This is the largest plane crash in the history of Soviet aviation and the Aeroflot company in terms of the number of victims, as well as the largest plane crash in the history of Tu-154 aircraft.
Tu-154 crash in Omsk
178 dead
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On October 11, 1984, at the Omsk-Central airport, a Tu-154B-1 aircraft (board number 85243), operating flight No. 3352 on the Krasnodar-Omsk-Novosibirsk route, collided with three airfield vehicles performing work on the runway.
The disaster occurred due to the fault of the air traffic controller of the launch control tower, who fell asleep at work. Having allowed cars to enter the runway, he did not turn on the “runway occupied” light board.
This is the largest disaster in the history of Soviet and Russian aviation on the territory of present-day Russia.
Il-62 crash in Moscow
176 dead
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On October 13, 1972, in the Moscow region on the shore of Lake Nerskoye, an Aeroflot Il-62 airliner crashed while landing at Sheremetyevo Airport, operating an international charter flight Paris-Leningrad-Moscow.
All 174 people on board (164 passengers and 10 crew members) died in the disaster. At the time of the events, it was the largest air disaster in the world.
The exact cause of the disaster has not been established; the probable cause is an incorrect altimeter setting.
On September 7, 2011, a Yak-42 aircraft of Yak Service airlines crashed during takeoff near Tunoshna airport in the Yaroslavl region. There were 45 people on board the plane, including members of the Yaroslavl hockey team Lokomotiv. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations at 19.30 Moscow time, two people survived.
Cases of Yak-42 aircraft crashes were relatively rare.
May 26, 2003 The Yak-42, which belonged to the Ukrainian Mediterranean Lines company, crashed. The disaster killed 62 Spanish peacekeepers returning from Afghanistan. The tragedy occurred while landing for refueling at the Turkish Trabzon airport.
According to the materials of the commission to investigate the circumstances of the tragedy, the cause of the disaster was the “human factor.” The final document of the investigation notes that at the time of the crash the crew had been in flight for 23 hours without rest, which is five hours more than allowed by Spanish regulations. The pilot was overtired and did not follow the air traffic controller's command to turn towards the sea, but turned towards the mountains, where he crashed.
December 25, 1999 The Yak-42 of the Cuban company Cubana de Aviation crashed approximately 200 kilometers west of Caracas (Venezuela).
The airliner crashed into a nearby mountain during a landing maneuver over the airport in Valencia. Following this, there was a strong explosion and a fire broke out. All 22 people on board were killed. Among the ten passengers, four were Cubans, four were Venezuelans and two were Dutch. According to experts, the tragedy occurred due to a mistake by crew members who did not know well the specifics of the destination airport - Valencia.
December 17, 1997 The Yak-42 plane of the Ukrainian company Aerosvit crashed into the Pieria mountain range in northern Greece while trying to land at Thessaloniki International Airport (Greece). 74 people were killed, including eight crew members. In 2005, a court in Greece found two air traffic controllers guilty of criminal negligence causing a plane crash.
November 21, 1993 A Yak-42 plane, leased by the private Macedonian airline Aviaimpex, crashed in Macedonia. In bad weather conditions and in the dark, the plane crashed into a mountain two kilometers from the Ohrid airfield. The crew died, of 108 passengers only one survived. The crash occurred during landing due to an error in determining the altitude.
(based on materials from RIA Novosti).
Summer 1992 The Yak-42 crashed in the Chinese city of Nanjing. There were more than 100 passengers on board the plane. The aircraft was purchased by China from the former Soviet Union in 1986 for $15 million through government-to-government trade. Before the start of operation in China, it had two major overhauls. Chinese technicians independently serviced the airliner, without the help of Russian specialists.
(based on materials from the Segodnya newspaper, 06/06/1994, Chinese Tu 154 crashed near Xi'an).
September 13, 1990 During landing, a Yak 42 crashed, flying from Volgograd to Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). The accident occurred near Koltsovo airport. Of the 128 people on board, four died.
(According to materials from the Russian newspaper, 02/06/1991, No. 24, Victims of emergency situations are always specific. Will we learn to find specific culprits?).
