Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On 5 March 2011, an Antonov An-148 passenger jet broke up in mid-air and crashed on the outskirts of Garbuzovo, a village in the Belgorod Oblast of Russia. All six crew members, the only people on board, were killed. The aircraft was on a demonstration flight prior to delivery to the Myanmar Air Force. [1]
[14] [15] [16] Rescue workers reached the site 2.5 hours after the crash. [5] The captain was a 51-year-old Russian named Valery Gubanov who had accumulated 5,000 hours of total flying experience, of which 2,800 were on the Antonov An-148, but only 58 hours as pilot in command. His medical certificate had expired two days before the accident. [17]
2011 Garbuzovo Antonov An-148 crash; S. Saratov Airlines Flight 703 This page was last edited on 3 August 2016, at 16:39 (UTC). Text ...
The subsequent loss of control killed all but one of the 103 people on board, the deadliest aviation disaster in Algeria until the 2018 Algerian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 crash, in which a Ilyushin Il-76 crashed shortly after take-off on 11 April 2018, killing all 257 people on board.
The Antonov An-158 is a stretched fuselage version of the aircraft, accommodating up to 100 passengers. Following a crash in February 2018, all An-148 and An-158 in Russia were grounded by the Russian Ministry of Transport. [3] [4] In addition, Cubana grounded its An-158 fleet as of May 2018 due to several technical issues with the aircraft. [5]
Antonov An-225 Mriya: Destroyed on the ground at Hostomel Airport. [438] [439] [440] Antonov An-74: Registration number UR-74010 was destroyed by Russian forces during the Battle of Antonov Airport. [441] [440] Antonov An-26: Registration number UR-13395 was destroyed during the battle for Hostomel. [440] [442] Antonov An-124
It predates the Boeing 737 Max, the type that was involved in two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed all 346 people on board those flights. The 737 Max was grounded for almost two years.
In addition, the most ground fatalities associated with the accidental crash of an aircraft occurred on 8 January 1996, when an Antonov An-32 crashed into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in the deaths of at least 249 people on the ground. [6] [7] [8]