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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 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]
By DMITRY LOVETSKY and LAURA MILLS HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) - Another 21 bodies have been found in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed last week, killing ...
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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]
An independent research group finally shed new insight into the crash in 2015. The Missing Allied Air Crew Research Team contacted historians from the DPAA to inform them of a possible crash site ...