![]() The investigation found that there were several serious shortcomings in the organization of flight work at Cheremshanka Airlines, as well as in the flight safety culture in the air traffic control at Tura Airport. After the records were transferred to the Russian investigation team, the recordings were not to be found, which could indicate possible sabotage by Chernov. ![]() A.M Chernov, the owner of Cheremshanka Airlines, ordered that before the records were transferred to the investigation team, he should listen to them first. The investigation was hampered by the fact that the recording of the crew's conversation with ATC at Tura Airport was somehow lost before the official investigation began. Crash victims, along with their belongings, were strewn in a large grassy area near the wreckage. The fuselage was crushed severely while the tail was relatively intact. įootage from the crash site, taken from a helicopter, showed that the cockpit of the Yak-40 was completely destroyed. There was no explosion or fire since the aircraft had run out of fuel, but the impact was not survivable. The Yak-40 then rolled severely to the right and crashed into the bank of the Chamba River inverted, with the front portion in the water and the empennage resting on shore. At a speed of 235 km/h, the aircraft sheared tree tops and the right wing detached from the airframe. The landing gear was extended by the crew started its initial descent. Ĭaptain Danilov ordered First Officer Shcherbakov and the flight mechanic Shurpatov to look out from the window and see if they could find the Chamba River. The crew then decided to land on the bank of the Chamba River. Two helicopters and an An-24 aircraft were trying to help, suggesting the Yak-40's direction to the swamp where it would be possible to make an emergency landing. The crew then decided to make an emergency landing in a swamp. Ĥ1 kilometers from Vanavara, at an altitude of 3,000 meters, the airliner's engines flamed out as the fuel supply was exhausted. After three failed landing attempts, the crew decided to divert to Vanavara airfield, a small airport some 453 kilometers away from Tura Airport. Due to the limited visibility, the crew missed the airport. The crew were therefore caught unaware by the poor weather when they arrived in Tura. Weather conditions had begun to deteriorate while the aircraft was en route to Tura Airport, but ATC in Tura failed to inform the flight crew of the changing conditions. Also on board was a flight mechanic Mikhail N. Danilov and the co-pilot was First Officer Anatoliy G. The pilot of the flight was Captain Anatoliy A. At the time of the accident, the Yakovlev Yak-40 was carrying 24 passengers, including 21 adults and 3 children, and 4 crew members. The flight was operated by Cheremshanka Airlines, a regional airline based at Krasnoyarsk Cheremshanka Airport. The total operating time of the aircraft was 22,203 flight hours and a flight cycle of 17,220 cycles. Cheremshanka Airlines later retrieved the Yak-40 in 1993. Fourteen years later, on 16 November 1988, the 87468 was operated by the Krasnoyarsk Civil Aviation Administration. On November 16 the aircraft was sent to the Kazakh Civil Aviation Administration. It was re-registered as CCCP-87468 and was handed over to the Ministry of Civil Aviation of the USSR. The airliner was manufactured in Saratov Aviation Plant on 11 November 1974 with a serial number of 9441337. The aircraft involved was a Yakovlev Yak-40 which bore a Russian registration of RA-87468. Subsequently, the investigation team blamed the airport for "not reporting the weather condition" in a timely manner to the crew. This resulted in the aircraft crashing due to fuel exhaustion. Poor weather conditions had required the flight to abort several landing attempts and the air crew failed to maintain awareness of the fuel quantity. The Russian investigation team concluded that pilot error was the cause of the crash. ![]() All 24 passengers and 4 crew members died. The 1994 Vanavara air disaster occurred on 26 September 1994 when a Yakovlev Yak-40, operated by Russian regional airliner Cheremshanka Airlines, crashed onto the bank of a river near Vanavara, Russia. Vanavary, Evenki Autonomous District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia A Yak-40 similar to the one involved in the disaster ![]()
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