Air Crash. UTAir

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Air Crash. UTAir

Postby Royal » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:12 am

Is gravity much stronger in Russia?

02 APR 2012 ATR-72-201 (VP-BYZ) of UTAir, 2,5 km SW of Tyumen Airport (TJM)- 31(43 )

Date: 02 APR 2012
Time: 07:44
Type: ATR-72-201
Operator: UTAir
Registration: VP-BYZ
C/n / msn: 332
First flight: 1992
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW124B
Crew: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Passengers: Fatalities: 27 / Occupants: 27
Total: Fatalities: 31 / Occupants: 43
Ground fatalities:
Airplane damage: Destroyed
Location: 2,5 km SW of Tyumen Airport (TJM) (Russia)
Phase: Initial climb
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Tyumen-Roschino International Airport (TJM)
Destination airport: Surgut Airport (SGC)
Flightnumber: 120

An ATR-72 passenger plane was destroyed in an accident shortly after takeoff from Tyumen Airport (TJM), Russia. According to the airline, UTAir, there were 39 passengers and four crew members on board. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that 12 passengers sustained serious injuries. Flight 120 took off from Tyumen Airport runway 21 on a regular domestic passenger flight to Surgut (SGC). The airplane crash-landed in a snowy field approx. 2,5 km past the end of the runway. It broke up and a fire erupted. Weather reported at the Tyumen Airport (01:30 UTC / 07:30 local time) was: USTR 020130Z 24006G09MPS 9999 BKN013CB M01/M01 Q1002 TEMPO 26015MPS 1500 SHSN BLSN BKN005 RMK QFE742/0989 21290060 30750029 Wind 6 m/s (gusting to 9m/s) at 240 degrees; Visibility: 10 km or more; Clouds: Broken, at 1300 feet above aerodrome level, cumulonimbus; Temperature: -01 degrees Celsius; Dewpoint: -01 degrees Celsius; QNH (Sea-level pressure): 1002 hPa; The following weather phenomena are expected to arise temporarily: Wind: 260 degrees, Speed: 15 m/s; Visibility: 1500 m; Weather: Showers of Snow; Clouds: Broken sky, at 500 feet above aerodrome level; Runway state: Runway 21: wet or water patches, contamination 51% to 100%, deposit less than 1 mm deep, friction coefficient 0.60

AIRCRAFT HISTORY

F-WWLN - ATR (20 OCT 1992) first flight
B-22710 - Transasia Airways (08 JAN 1993) delivered
OH-KRL - Finnair (01 JAN 1999) delivered
OH-KRL - Aero Airlines (23 NOV 2003) leased
ES-KRL - Aero Airlines (26 AUG 2005) new registration
ES-KRL - Aero Airlines (06 JAN 2008) withdrawn from use
VP-BYZ - UTAir (23 JUL 2008) bought


AIRCRAFT PROFILE ATR-72
Last fatal accident involving a ATR-72: 04-NOV-2010 ATR-72-212 CU-T1549 Aerocaribbean - 68 fatalties (515 days ago)
Total number of hull-losses: 14 (of which 13 were accidents)
3rd worst accident involving a ATR-72
Survival rate for all fatal ATR-72 accidents: on average 35.5 % of all occupants survived fatal accidents

COUNTRY PROFILE RUSSIA
Last fatal airliner/bizjet accident in Russia: 07-SEP-2011 Yakovlev 42D RA-42434 YAK Service - 44 fatalities (208 days ago)
Total number of fatal airliner/bizjet accidents: 303
Total number of airliner/bizjet fatalities: 7088
74th worst airliner/bizjet accident in Russia
The country is rated Cat. 1 in FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)
Image We have no effective screening methods to make sure pilots are sane.— Dr. Herbert Haynes, FAA.
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Re: Air Crash. UTAir

Postby Alessandro » Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:46 am

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... sh-370597/
New deicing rules have been implemented.
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Re: Air Crash. UTAir

Postby AztecDave » Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:11 am

i'm more afraid of flying in a former USSR airline than i am of death. wait a minute...
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