ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 160531
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| Date: | Saturday 14 September 2013 |
| Time: | 13:38 LT |
| Type: |  AgustaWestland AW119 Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | Kalugatransmash Ltd |
| Registration: | RA-01978 |
| MSN: | 14798 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2012 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | between Beli and Dmitrovo, Staritskiy district of Tver -
 Russia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Veliky Novgorod helipad |
| Yahroma helipad | |
| Investigating agency: | MAK |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
September 14 at 11:30 Moscow time the helicopter Agusta AW-119MKII RA-01978 took off with one passenger on the route Veliky Novgorod (helipad, N58°31′42″ E31°15′46″) - Selizharovo (helipad, Tver region, N56°51′3″ E33°27′13″) - Myakinino (helipad, Krasnogorsk district, Moscow region, N55°47′42″ E37°21′17″) - Yahroma (helipad, Dmitrov district, Moscow region, N56°16’47’’ E037°22’37’’). At 12:45 helicopter landed in the southern outskirts of the Selizharovo, and departed again at 13:00.
The last communication was at 13:14 near the village Lukovnikovo, Staritskiy district of Tver Region. The helicopter crashed in the territory Staritskiy district of Tver Region, approximately 8 km to the right of the direction of the flight path (at the point with approximate coordinates N56°32'57", E34°28'45").
As a result of the crash the helicopter received substantial damage to the hull, complete separation of the bow, tail, damage to the engine and rotor blades. Pieces of the fuselage, helicopter parts, personal belongings and documents scattered in diameter and 100 meters, more extended in the course of the helicopter crash. The direction - from south to north.
During the flight, the weather was characterized by low cloud. The terrain was difficult, from point Lukovnikovo with height above sea level 264 meters to the crash site about 20 km height was 302 meters, the height difference is in the direction of increasing by 38 meters. The height of the trees in the fall was 35-40 meters. As told by witnesses, who were on-site emergency, the trees “broken like matchsticks".
In the crash killed: pilot Margarita Afanaskina, undisputed champion of Russia in 2010 Helicopter Championships and bronze medalist XIV World Helicopter Championships (2012), the passenger Sergei G. Medvedev, head of organizational and administrative management of the Federal Forestry Agency.
The direct cause of the AW119 MK II RA-01978 helicopter crash was most likely the captain's loss of spatial orientations when entering into instrument meteorological conditions.
The following factors are causally related to the accident:
- failure of the PIC to make a timely decision to return to the departure point or to land on a site selected from the air when weather conditions worsen to values that did not allow flying on VFR;
- non-compliance of the level of professional training of the PIC with the requirements for a commercial pilot - the PIC was not trained to perform helicopter instrument flight operations;
- programs for retraining captains for mastered types of helicopters do not provide training on instrument flight;
- the Civil Aviation Administration of the Russian Federation has not established a system for monitoring compliance of the qualification level of aviation personnel with qualification requirements.
The loss of spatial orientation could be facilitated by the pilot's erroneous perception, under conditions of increased psycho-emotional stress, of information about the position of the helicopter along the roll due to the significant difference in the indication of the current roll between the ASTRONAUTICS 129920 3 horizon and installed on a previously mastered R 44 helicopter (type horizon 4300 311)
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
http://69.mchs.gov.ru/news/detail.php?news=23803 EMERCOM Tver Oblast
http://radiovesti.ru/article/show/article_id/106130
http://www.vesti.ru?id=1129789_
https://sputniknews.com/russia/20130915/183460754/Search-Effort-Underway-for-Helicopter-in-Central-Russia.html
https://69.mvd.ru/news/item/1217427/
https://www.newsru.com/russia/16sep2013/ver_to.html
http://lifenews.ru/#!news/119398 (Photo)
https://tvernews.ru/news/156356/(The latest information and photos)
Images:
Photo: MAK
Media:
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Sep-2013 10:03 | Hans Gruber | Added |
| 15-Sep-2013 10:05 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Total occupants, Nature, Damage, Narrative] |
| 15-Sep-2013 10:49 | krasatpi | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn] |
| 15-Sep-2013 12:00 | gerard57 | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
| 15-Sep-2013 12:59 | Hans Gruber | Updated [Operator, Source] |
| 16-Sep-2013 06:49 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 16-Sep-2013 17:05 | krasatpi | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 17-Sep-2013 03:57 | Hans Gruber | Updated [Source] |
| 18-Sep-2013 17:19 | vasilf | Updated [Operator, Source] |
| 19-Sep-2013 06:39 | vasilf | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 19-Sep-2013 10:07 | vasilf | Updated [Embed code] |
| 19-Sep-2013 13:05 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Location] |
| 24-Sep-2013 03:56 | Hans Gruber | Updated [Embed code] |
| 30-Apr-2020 17:23 | harro | Updated [Narrative, Photo, Accident report, ] |
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