Incident Overview
Date: Monday 12 February 1968
Aircraft Type: Antonov An-2
Owner/operator: Aeroflot, Kazakstan Civil Aviation Directorate
Registration Number: CCCP-28946
Location: 30 km from Nekrasovka –
ÿ Kazakhstan
Phase of Flight: En route
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Component Affected: Antonov 2 aircraftAntonov 2 aircraft
Category: Accident
An Antonov 2 aircraft crashed into a snow-covered slope of Mount Tikasu, resulting in injuries to all four passengers and pilots. The incident occurred due to below-minimum weather conditions during a flight between Urdzhar and Ayaguz in Kazakhstan, leading to the pilot leaving the site and subsequent evacuation by a Mi-4 helicopter.An Antonov 2 aircraft crashed into a snow-covered slope of Mount Tikasu, resulting in injuries to all four passengers and pilots. The incident occurred due to below-minimum weather conditions during a flight between Urdzhar and Ayaguz in Kazakhstan, leading to the pilot leaving the site and subsequent evacuation by a Mi-4 helicopter.
Description
An Antonov 2 crashed at a height of 1,850 metres into the slope of Mount Tikasu (2,151 metres), 30 km from Nekrasovka and caught fire. Both pilots and all 4 passengers were injured. The airplane had encountered below-minima weather conditions due to snow fall en route between Urdzhar and Ayaguz in Kazakhstan. The captain left the accident site the next day and reached Nekrasovka after walking through deep snow in mountainous terrain for 18 hours. The other survivors were then evacuated by a Mi-4 helicopter. 14feb68; t/t 4,093 hours and 8,820 cycles
Source of Information
https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.php, http://airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=698https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.php, http://airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=698Primary Cause
Below-minimum weather conditions during flight.Below-minimum weather conditions during flight.Share on:
