Incident Overview
Date: Tuesday 16 May 1972
Aircraft Type: Antonov An-24T
Owner/operator: Soviet Navy
Registration Number: 05
Location: Svetlogorsk –
ÿ Russia
Phase of Flight: En route
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Component Affected: Aircraft’s altimeter and the aircraft’s navigation system.Aircraft’s altimeter and the aircraft’s navigation system.
Category: Accident
An-24 aircraft crashed after returning to Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport following a weather research flight over the Baltic Sea. Due to an incorrect setting of the barometric altimeter pressure, the aircraft?s altimeter indicated a higher altitude than the actual altitude, leading to a descent into thick fog. The aircraft collided with a pine tree on an upslope at a height of 42 meters, resulting in a catastrophic crash onto a kindergarten, killing 25 people.An-24 aircraft crashed after returning to Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport following a weather research flight over the Baltic Sea. Due to an incorrect setting of the barometric altimeter pressure, the aircraft?s altimeter indicated a higher altitude than the actual altitude, leading to a descent into thick fog. The aircraft collided with a pine tree on an upslope at a height of 42 meters, resulting in a catastrophic crash onto a kindergarten, killing 25 people.
Description
The Antonov An-24 returned to Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport after a flight over the Baltic Sea for weather research. The crew didnt set the barometric altimeter pressure of the airfield, so the altimeter indicated a height higher than the actual altitude. After crossing the shoreline it entered a patch of thick fog. The crew couldnt see the ground and descended to a dangerously low altitude. At Svetlogorsk, reportedly at an indicated height of 150 metres, the wing collided with a pine tree on an upslope at a height of 42 metres. The aircraft then crashed onto a kindergarten, 200 metres further on, killing 25 persons on the ground as well as all 6 crew and both passengers.
Source of Information
http://war.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=160, https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.phphttp://war.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=160, https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.phpPrimary Cause
Incorrect setting of the barometric altimeter pressure during a weather research flight.Incorrect setting of the barometric altimeter pressure during a weather research flight.Share on:
