1995 Borodianka mid-air collision

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1995 Borodianka mid-air collision
Accident
Date10 February 1995 (1995-02-10)
Summary Mid-air collision caused by pilot error
Site Borodianka Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
50°44′38.3″N29°55′19.1″E / 50.743972°N 29.921972°E / 50.743972; 29.921972
Total fatalities7
Total survivors5
First aircraft
Antonov An-70 in 1994.jpg
The aircraft involved in the accident during ground tests, three months before its first flight
Type Antonov An-70
Operator Antonov Design Bureau
Registration Unknown
Flight origin Kyiv-Hostomel Airport, Ukraine
Destination Kyiv-Hostomel Airport, Ukraine
Occupants7
Crew7
Fatalities7
Survivors0
Second aircraft
Russia Air Force An-72 RA-72979 CKL 2006-2-7.png
An Antonov An-72 similar to the one involved
Type Antonov An-72
Operator Antonov Design Bureau
RegistrationUR-72966
Flight origin Kyiv-Hostomel Airport, Ukraine
Destination Kyiv-Hostomel Airport, Ukraine
Occupants5
Crew5
Fatalities0
Survivors5

On 10 February 1995, at 16:09 CET, the first Antonov An-70 prototype aircraft collided with an Antonov An-72 that was assisting with the An-70 test program over Borodianka Raion in Ukraine. All seven crew members on board the An-70 were killed; the An-72 was able to make a safe emergency landing at Hostomel Airport in Kyiv with no fatalities. [1]

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Causes

A Ukrainian-led commission reported that the cause was human error and blamed the flight maneuvers by the crew as the major contributing factor to the crash. Leonid Berestov is quoted as saying "The careless actions of both crews in their formation flying led to a collision and crash". [2]

Several faults were observed in the three test flights that took place before the accident flight, including flight control problems during the second flight and again during the third flight, on the day preceding the collision. [2]

References

  1. "Accident Description, Antonov 70 UR- Gostomel". Aviation Safety Network . Flight Safety Foundation. 19950210-0. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Human error blamed in An-70 crash". Flightglobal . Flight International. 22 March 1995. Retrieved 7 February 2010.

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