Incident Overview

Description
The Antonov An-2 crashed during an emergency landing killing one of the two occupants. The An-2 burst into flames and was completely destroyed. The airplane operated on a crop spraying flight in the Slavyansk-na-Kubani district of the Krasnodar region. The engine lost power shortly after takeoff due to the use of sub-standard E95 fuel. The pilot started to drop the load of chemicals and attempted an emergency landing in a soya field but the aircraft hit the slope of an irrigation drain, nosed over into the drain and burnt. Probable cause (translated from Russian): Causes of the accident with the aircraft AN-2 RA-01105 was nosing down of the aircraft in its collision with a parapet channel when performing a forced landing. Necessity of the forced landing was most probably due to a drop in engine power due to refueling of the aircraft with substandard automotive gasoline. Contributing factors of the accident were: – captain’s lack of knowledge of the flight area and layout of cultivated fields; – lack of braking during the forced landing; – lack of a cockpit flight crew member (co-pilot).
Source of Information
http://www.lifenews.ru/news/67991, https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.phphttp://www.lifenews.ru/news/67991, https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.phpPrimary Cause
Substandard fuel refueling caused engine power loss.Substandard fuel refueling caused engine power loss.Share on: