ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev Yak-40S2 CU-T1202 Santiago-Antonio Maceo Airport (SCU)
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Status:Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Date:Wednesday 24 October 1990
Time:01:58
Type:Silhouette image of generic YK40 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Yakovlev Yak-40S2
Operator:Cubana de Aviación
Registration: CU-T1202
MSN: 9631449
First flight: 1976
Total airframe hrs:14068
Cycles:14011
Engines: 3 Ivchenko AI-25
Crew:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7
Passengers:Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 24
Total:Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 31
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:4 km (2.5 mls) E of Santiago-Antonio Maceo Airport (SCU) (   Cuba)
Crash site elevation: 94 m (308 feet) amsl
Phase: Approach (APR)
Nature:Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:Camagüey-Ign Agramonte International Airport (CMW/MUCM), Cuba
Destination airport:Santiago-Antonio Maceo Airport (SCU/MUCU), Cuba
Flightnumber:CU2886
Narrative:
The Yakovlev 40 passenger plane, operating Cubana flight 2886, was destroyed when it impacted mountainous terrain 4 km short of the runway at Santiago-Antonio Maceo Airport (SCU).
The flight departed Camagüey at 01:04 hours local time. An NDB approach was flown to runway 09 but the approach was abandoned at 01:51 hours. A second attempt was made at 01:55, resulting in another aborted approach. The crew then attempted to manoeuvre visually for an approach to runway 27. The aircraft struck the ground, 4 km short of the threshold of runway 27.

Probable Cause:

PROBABLE CAUSE (translated from Spanish): Technical error of piloting by the pilot in command of the aircraft to stop the NDB procedure and to continue flying according to visual flight rules (VFR) in existing weather circumstances with poor visual reference and the mountainous topography of the terrain, which made it advisable to operate according to instrument flight rules (IFR).

Classification:
VFR flight in IMC
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) - Mountain

Sources:
» Soviet Transports
» ICAO Circular 263-AN/157 (164-183)


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Distance from Camagüey-Ign Agramonte International Airport to Santiago-Antonio Maceo Airport as the crow flies is 263 km (164 miles).

This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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