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1995 Borodianka mid-air collision

Aircraft collision over Ukraine

Summary

Aircraft collision over Ukraine

Field	Value
occurrence_type	Accident
date
type	Mid-air collision caused by pilot error
site	Borodianka Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
coords
total_fatalities	7
total_survivors	5
plane1_type	Antonov An-70
plane1_image	Antonov An-70 in 1994.jpg
plane1_caption	The aircraft involved in the accident during ground tests, three months before its first flight
plane1_operator	Antonov Design Bureau
plane1_tailnum	Unknown
plane1_origin	Kyiv-Hostomel Airport, Ukraine
plane1_destination	Kyiv-Hostomel Airport, Ukraine
occupants	7
plane1_crew	7
plane1_fatalities	7
plane1_survivors	0
plane2_type	Antonov An-72
plane2_image	Russia_Air_Force_An-72_RA-72979_CKL_2006-2-7.png
plane2_image_upright	1.16
plane2_caption	An Antonov An-72 similar to the one involved
plane2_operator	Antonov Design Bureau
plane2_tailnum	UR-72966
plane2_origin	Kyiv-Hostomel Airport, Ukraine
plane2_destination	Kyiv-Hostomel Airport, Ukraine
plane2_occupants	5
plane2_crew	5
plane2_fatalities	0
plane2_survivors	5

On 10 February 1995, at 16:09 CET, the first Antonov An-70 prototype aircraft collided with an Antonov An-72 that was assisting with the An-70 test program over Borodianka Raion in Ukraine. All seven crew members on board the An-70 were killed; the An-72 was able to make a safe emergency landing at Hostomel Airport in Kyiv with no fatalities.

Causes

A Ukrainian-led commission reported that the cause was human error and blamed the flight maneuvers by the crew as the major contributing factor to the crash. Leonid Berestov is quoted as saying "The careless actions of both crews in their formation flying led to a collision and crash".

Several faults were observed in the three test flights that took place before the accident flight, including flight control problems during the second flight and again during the third flight, on the day preceding the collision.

References

Bibliography

Светлая память погибшим // Авиация и Время. — К. : 1995. — No. 1. — С. 25. (Obituary in Aviatsiya i Vremia journal, including photogallery of the crew).

References

"Accident Description, Antonov 70 UR- Gostomel". [[Flight Safety Foundation]].
(22 March 1995). "Human error blamed in An-70 crash". [[Flight International]].

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