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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]
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.
On 12 September 2012 at about 12:20 local time (00:20 UTC), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251, operated by an Antonov An-28, crashed while attempting to land at Palana Airport in Russia. [1] Both pilots were killed, together with 8 of the 12 passengers. All 4 survivors were in serious condition.
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 plane was flying from Tashkent to Navoiy with 4 crew members and 59 passengers. On approach, the crew did not follow the landing pattern and gave false information to the controller, stating that they were following the controller's orders. As a result, the aircraft was at an altitude of 3,000 meters when it was 19 kilometers from the runway.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in ...
American Airlines flight 5342 from Wichita, Kan., and the military aircraft crashed into each other just before 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, as the plane was preparing to land at Reagan National ...
All 11 people on board were killed. Preliminary reports indicate the pilots reported a fuel leak and an engine fire to air traffic controllers, but did not manage to return to the airport. The aircraft then crashed in a wooded area. The aircraft involved, RA-11125, was the oldest aircraft in the Russian commercial air fleet. [133]