The crash of IL-76 in Parvan is a plane crash that occurred on the night of July 5-6, 2011, of an IL-76 plane in the province of Parwan in Afghanistan .
| Accident of IL-76 in Parvan | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| date | July 6, 2011 |
| Time | the night of July 5-6 |
| Cause | pilot error |
| A place |  Parwan Province , Afghanistan |
| Dead | 9 |
| Aircraft | |
 Aircraft in May 2007 | |
| Model | IL-76 |
| Airline |  Silk Way Airlines |
| Departure point | Baku |
| Destination | Bagram |
| Board number | 4K-AZ55 |
| Date of issue | 2005 year |
| Passengers | 0 |
| Crew | 9 |
| Survivors | 0 |
A cargo plane belonging to the Azerbaijani company Silk Way Airlines was heading from Baku to the Afghan city of Bagram . At the time of the crash, there were 18 tons of cargo on board.
On board at the time of the crash were nine crew members. Everyone died.
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Aircraft
The plane was built in 2005 . Its total carrying capacity was 40 tons. The last time the plane went through a full technical inspection in February 2011. In June 2011, another technical inspection was carried out [1] .
Holocaust
The plane transported NATO military cargo and flew from Azerbaijan to the Bagram military base , which is located north of Kabul . Silk Way's aircraft operated under contract with the International Coalition Forces in Afghanistan (ISAF) . On the night of July 5–6, the commander of a vessel located over the territory of Afghanistan assumed responsibility for landing the aircraft visually, abandoning the services of the Bagram airfield dispatcher. As a result of an error during approach, an aircraft with 18 tons of cargo crashed into a mountain. All 9 crew members died [2] .
In the fall, the plane split into several parts, after which a strong flame broke out. At the time of the crash, all crew members were alive. The fire that arose as a result of the fall lasted for three hours. The plane crashed at a distance of 40-45 kilometers from the airport [2] .
Investigation
Initially, the cause of the crash was not clear. The representative of the command of the contingent of US coalition forces and their allies in Afghanistan, British Major Tim James said that the plane crashed into a mountain at an altitude of about 3.8 thousand meters. A number of Afghan media reported that the plane was shot down by the Taliban [2] . Azerbaijani ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan Dashgyn Shikarov also said on July 7 that the plane was shot down by members of the Taliban [3] .
The Afghan Transport Administration has a special commission to investigate the causes of the crash, which included representatives of the Civil Aviation Administration of Azerbaijan and Silk Way experts. The American side also participated in the investigation of the crash and rescue activities. The safety of the commission’s representatives was monitored by more than 300 NATO troops [2] .
On July 25, the remains of crew members were delivered to Baku to the Association of Forensic Medical Examination and Pathological Anatomy of the Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan [2] .
On August 15, 2011, the MARS-BM airborne sound recorder of the aircraft, which was significantly damaged (magnetic tape, however, was not damaged), was sent to Moscow . Specialists of the Interstate Aviation Committee in the presence of representatives of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan carried out work on opening and copying information from the registrar. On September 5, Rosbalt representatives said that the cause of the crash was a crew error, and not a missile launched by the Taliban, as previously thought:
| Decryption of the flight recorder showed that the ship's commander took responsibility for landing the aircraft in visual mode, abandoning the services of the dispatcher of the Bagram airfield near Kabul. As a result of an error during approach, an aircraft with 18 tons of cargo crashed into a mountain and all 9 crew members were killed. It is not yet clear why the aircraft commander, experienced pilot Sergey Kuzmin decided to land the aircraft visually at an aerodrome with a difficult mountainous terrain. Typically, at Bagram Airport, aircraft are landed by a dispatcher. [2] |
Crew
Of the nine crew members, five were citizens of Azerbaijan (four of whom were Azerbaijanis ), the rest were from Uzbekistan [1] .
| Crew member name | Citizenship | Position | Year of birth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sergey Kuzmin | Uzbekistan | captain | 1969 |
| Oleg Marshikhin | Azerbaijan | second pilot | 1979 |
| Igor Zhen | Uzbekistan | navigator | 1969 |
| Vladimir Shatobin | Uzbekistan | flight engineer | 1969 |
| Ahmedjan Hajaev | Uzbekistan | flight attendant | 1955 |
| Elnur Makhmudov | Azerbaijan | flight operator | 1981 |
| Tapdyg Gahramanov | Azerbaijan | flight operator | 1964 |
| Afghan Ragimov | Azerbaijan | aircraft technician | 1980 |
| Mehman Huseynov | Azerbaijan | aircraft technician | 1962 |
See also
- Accident An-12 in Dwyer