Date:	Monday 15 August 2011
Time:	17:00 UTC
Type:	Piper PA-28R-200 Cherokee Arrow II
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	RA-1005G
MSN:	28R-7635093
Year of manufacture:	1975
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Near the town of Kuksino, in the Tigoda River -   Russia
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Investigating agency:	MAK
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Three people were killed on the territory of the Leningrad region when a private single-engine plane crashed into a local river near the town of Kuksino, a hundred kilometers away from St Petersburg.

According to the commission, the cause of the accident was the flight at an extremely low altitude, which led to the collision of the aircraft with a high-voltage power line, its destruction and the death of the pilot and passengers. PIC performed a flight while intoxicated.

http://www.qnaol.net/QNAEn/News_bulletin/News/Pages/11-08-16-0856_42_0014.aspx
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/671217/Three-killed-in-light-plane-crash-in-St-Petersburg.aspx]
https://www.5-tv.ru/news/44054/ (video)

http://www.airliners.net/photos/airliners/6/7/4/1776476.jpg (photo)

Photo: MAK

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
16-Aug-2011 00:56	gerard57	Added
16-Aug-2011 01:39	gerard57	Updated [Time, Location, Source]
16-Aug-2011 02:11	krasatpi	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Source]
16-Aug-2011 04:22	RobertMB	Updated [Source]
12-Jul-2020 17:44	harro	Updated [Narrative, Photo, Accident report, ]