| Date: | Monday 23 August 1993 |
| Time: | 18:42 |
| Type: |  Antonov An-12 |
| Owner/operator: | Russian Air Force |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Krasnoslobodsk, Volgograd region -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Engels Air Force Base |
| Astrakhan-Privolzhskiy Air Base |
Some 40 minutes after takeoff from Engels Air Force Base there was a partial failure of the electrical system. At an altitude of 4800 m engines number 2 and 3 failed. The crew began an emergency descent for landing at the nearest airfield which was Gurmak. Descending through 1700 m engine number 1 failed. The crew decided to carry out a forced landing. It collided with a tree, crashed and burned.
Cause of the accident was a short circuit in the DC power distribution network, which caused the destruction of the wire insulation of the automatic prop feathering controls.
Sources:
Flight International 6-12/4/93(37)
airdisaster.ru
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