Date: | Tuesday 22 January 1974 |
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Type: | Antonov An-2R |
Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, North Kavkaz Civil Aviation Directorate |
Registration: | CCCP-33225 |
MSN: | 1G57-28 |
Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
Total airframe hrs: | 5558 hours |
Cycles: | 19860 flights |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Yegorlykskaya district,Rostov region -
Russia
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Agricultural |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The An-2 operated on a crop-spraying flight for the sovkhoz (state farm) im. Kirova in the Yegorlykskaya District of the Rostov Region in below-minima weather conditions with thick fog. The pilot descended in order to find the airstrip but the aircraft impacted a snow-covered field some 1,000 metres from the airstrip, caught fire and burnt out.
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