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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]
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]
[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]
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Two people are dead and another is injured after a Civil Air Patrol plane crashed Saturday in northern Colorado. The Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, said the aircraft -- a ...
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