Incident Overview
Date: Friday 6 March 1987
Aircraft Type: Antonov An-26
Owner/operator: Aeroflot / Tajikistan
Registration Number: CCCP-26007
Location: 56 km E of Alma-Ata –
ÿ Kazakhstan
Phase of Flight: En route
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
Component Affected: The Antonov aircraft’s flight control system and communication equipment.The Antonov aircraft’s flight control system and communication equipment.
Category: Accident
An Antonov aircraft experienced a descent failure near a mountain peak at an elevated altitude. The crew failed to adjust heading during descent towards Alma-Ata (now Almaty), resulting in a deviation from the airway. Air traffic control did not monitor the flight for two minutes, prompting a corrective right turn. The aircraft remained unresponsive due to unstable communication conditions in the mountain area.An Antonov aircraft experienced a descent failure near a mountain peak at an elevated altitude. The crew failed to adjust heading during descent towards Alma-Ata (now Almaty), resulting in a deviation from the airway. Air traffic control did not monitor the flight for two minutes, prompting a corrective right turn. The aircraft remained unresponsive due to unstable communication conditions in the mountain area.
Description
The Antonov struck a mountainside at an elevation of 2370 m, 21 m below the summit. The crew failed to change heading while descending towards Alma-Ata (now named Almaty). Air traffic control didn’t monitor the flight for 2 minutes when the aircraft deviated from the airway. Upon noticing the deviation, the controller instructed a correcting right turn. The flight never responded, because communications in the vicinity of the mountain massif were unstable. The aircraft operated on a flight from Biysk to Leninabad (now named Khujand, Tajikistan) with an en route stop at Almaty.
Source of Information
https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.phphttps://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.phpPrimary Cause
Communication instability in the vicinity of the mountain massif.Communication instability in the vicinity of the mountain massif.Share on:
