Incident Overview

Date: Wednesday 9 December 2020
Aircraft Type: Antonov An-2R
Owner/operator: private
Registration Number: UR-33642
Location: near Zolota Sloboda, Kozova Raion, Ternopil Oblast – ÿ Ukraine
Phase of Flight: Landing
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Component Affected: An-2R aircraftAn-2R aircraft
Investigating Agency: NBAAINBAAI
Category: Accident
An-2R aircraft crashed during a nighttime landing near Zolota Slobod , Ukraine, resulting in the pilot’s death. The aircraft, UR-33642, was cancelled from the Ukraine aircraft register in 2019 and lacked a valid certificate. The collision with the ground, resulting from the plane?s improper landing, caused the destruction of the aircraft.An-2R aircraft crashed during a nighttime landing near Zolota Slobod , Ukraine, resulting in the pilot’s death. The aircraft, UR-33642, was cancelled from the Ukraine aircraft register in 2019 and lacked a valid certificate. The collision with the ground, resulting from the plane?s improper landing, caused the destruction of the aircraft.

Description

After sunset, during an unauthorized flight, the Antonov An-2R crashed during a landing on an unprepared area near Zolota Sloboda, Ukraine, killing the pilot. The aircraft was found laying inverted in a field. The aircraft, UR-33642, had been cancelled from the Ukraine aircraft register in 2019. The pilot did not have a valid certificate. Cause: The cause of the disaster was the collision of the An-2 plane, which is excluded from the state register of civil aircraft of Ukraine, with the earth’s surface, which led to the destruction of the aircraft and the death of the person piloting the plane, the landing by an unprepared person at night on an unprepared and unequipped plot of land, which resulted in the person piloting the aircraft losing its spatial position and colliding with the ground. Contributing factors: – failure to release the plane’s flaps into the landing position; – landing at high speed; – admission of a large left roll before landing.

Source of Information

https://tr.dsns.gov.ua/ua/Nadzvichayni-podiyi/11517.htmlhttps://tr.dsns.gov.ua/ua/Nadzvichayni-podiyi/11517.html

Primary Cause

Collision with the ground caused by improper landing.Collision with the ground caused by improper landing.

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