| Date: | Tuesday 16 May 1972 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Antonov An-24T |
| Owner/operator: | Soviet Navy |
| Registration: | 05 |
| MSN: | 9911302 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 25 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Svetlogorsk -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport (KGD/UMKK) |
| Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport (KGD/UMKK) |
The Antonov An-24 returned to Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport after a flight over the Baltic Sea for weather research. The crew didnt set the barometric altimeter pressure of the airfield, so the altimeter indicated a height higher than the actual altitude. After crossing the shoreline it entered a patch of thick fog. The crew couldnt see the ground and descended to a dangerously low altitude.
At Svetlogorsk, reportedly at an indicated height of 150 metres, the wing collided with a pine tree on an upslope at a height of 42 metres. The aircraft then crashed onto a kindergarten, 200 metres further on, killing 25 persons on the ground as well as all 6 crew and both passengers.
Sources:
war.airdisaster.ru
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