Incident Overview

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.htmlPrimary Cause
Collision with the ground caused by improper landing.Collision with the ground caused by improper landing.Share on: