The An-8 crash near Kirovabad is a plane crash of the military transport An-8 of the Soviet Air Force that occurred on Monday , April 13, 1964, on the Main Caucasus Range in the Kirovabad region, 6 people were killed in the crash.
| Accident near Kirovabad | |
|---|---|
 An-8 , similar to the crashed | |
| General information | |
| date | April 13, 1964 |
| Character | Clash with the mountain |
| Cause | Crew error |
| A place |  The main Caucasian ridge , near Mount Tsailakhan , 10 km southwest of Gdym , Akhtynsky district of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( RSFSR , USSR ) |
| Aircraft | |
| Model | An-8 |
| Affiliation |  USSR air force , 708 ovtap |
| Departure point |  Kirovabad |
| Destination | Kirovabad |
| Board number | 41 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Dead | 6 (all) |
Crew
| External Images | |
|---|---|
| Photos of the dead crew . | |
- Ship Commander - 1st Class Pilot Captain Putin Vladimir Ivanovich
- Pilot instructor - unit commander Major Minalyan Hayk Arshakovich
- Navigator - instructor - squad navigator Captain Chetkov Evgeny Nikolaevich
- Navigator - Senior Lieutenant Balaba Nikolai Platonovich
- Borttehnik - Senior Lieutenant Semenov Boris Grigorievich
- Bortradist - Junior sergeant s / s Chuchelov Vladimir Grigoryevich
Holocaust
The crew of the 708th separate military transport aviation regiment (based in Kirovabad ) on an An-8 aircraft with hull number 41 performed a training flight for landing. The flight was carried out along the circular route Kirovabad - Akstafa - Tbilisi - Mozdok - Makhachkala - Cape Izberbash - Yevlakh - Gerani - Kirovabad at night and in difficult weather conditions. After passing Izberbash and turning to the NBP, the crew admitted that the plane began to leave to the left east of the route. A reduction was also started from a height of 5100 to 1500 meters, and it was carried out with a doubled vertical speed - 10 m / s, instead of the specified 5 m / s. After some time, the An-8 flying in the clouds crashed into the snowy slope of the Main Caucasus Range at the Tsailakhan Mountain ( , height 3546 meters) on the border of the Dagestan ASSR and the Azerbaijan SSR . Having crashed just a few meters from the ridge, the car completely collapsed, and some of the debris even flew to the opposite slope. All people on board died [1] .
Reasons
According to the commission of inquiry, the poor organization and management of flights led to the disaster (the line of the beginning of the descent was chosen incorrectly, the commander and the navigator arbitrarily increased the speed of descent, the crew was not prepared for the flight), as well as the crew’s error in maintaining the track line and determining the line of the beginning of the descent [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 An-8 crash near Kirovabad (board 41), April 13, 1964. . AWar.irDisaster.ru. Date of treatment August 5, 2014.