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Soviet Air Force An-24T 11 stalled and crashed near Petrovsk Air Base during a training flight, killing the five crew; the aircraft was simulating a number one engine failure when the aircraft descended below the glide scope and lost airspeed, causing the aircraft to stall and crash near the runway as the aircraft was too low to recover. [107]
2017 Valan International Antonov An-26 crash; 2020 South West Aviation Antonov An-26 crash; A. 2007 Africa One Antonov An-26 crash; 2012 Amazon Sky An-26 crash; B.
Meridian Flight 3032 was an Antonov An-12BK which crashed in July 2022 near Antiphilippi, Kavala, Greece while trying to make an emergency landing at Kavala International Airport. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was carrying 11.5 tonnes (11,500 kg; 25,000 lb) of munitions when it crashed, which continued exploding until the next day, hindering the inspection of ...
October 10 – United Air Lines Trip 23, a Boeing 247, exploded in mid-air over Chesterton, Indiana, United States, in the first proven case of air sabotage on a commercial aircraft; all seven on board were killed. December 30 – In the 1933 Imperial Airways Ruysselede crash in Belgium, an Avro Ten struck a radio mast, killing all 10 on board.
On 25 September 2020, an An-26Sh military transport plane crashed during a training flight [1] in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. [2] Of the 27 people on board, one survived. The aircraft was destroyed. The aircraft had tail number 76 and belonged to the 203rd Training Aviation Brigade (A4104 military unit).
The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured. [3] [4]
The accident aircraft was an Antonov An-26, registration RF-92955, msn 10107. It had first flown in 1980. [ 6 ] This accident is the fifteenth An-26 fatal crash in this decade with a total of 159 deaths, none of these flights were scheduled passenger airline operations.
On 17 December 2012, an Antonov AN-26 cargo aircraft operated by Amazon Sky was flying from Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima to Las Malvinas Airport in the Cuzco Province, Peru with 4 crew when it experienced a dual engine failure due to icing and crashed into mountainous terrain in the Tomas District of Yauyos Province, Peru, killing all occupants.