Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023

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Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023
Accident
A Antonov An-24 similar to the aircraft involved
Date	18 March 1997
Summary	Structural failure of tail
Site	Cherkessk, Russia 44°13′N 42°03′E / 44.217°N 42.050°E / 44.217; 42.050
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Antonov An-24
Operator
Registration	RA-46516
Flight origin	Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport, Russia
Destination	Trabzon Airport, Turkey
Passengers	44
Crew	6
Fatalities	50
Survivors	0

Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023 was a charter flight between Stavropol in southern Russia and Trabzon in Turkey operated by the Russian airline . On 18 March 1997 the Antonov An-24 operating the flight suffered a structural failure and crashed into a forest, killing all 50 passengers and crew on board.

Accident[]

The flight, which was a frequently operated charter between Stavropol and Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, took off from Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport, carrying 8 crew members, 41 passengers, mainly traders who planned to purchase cheap consumer goods in Turkey and one of the directors of the airline.^[1]^[2]

The flight was at a height of 17,700 ft (5,400 m) 37 minutes after take off,^[2]^[3] when air traffic control lost contact with it.^[1]^[2]

Wreckage of the Antonov An-24 was found scattered over a wide area in a forest near the village of Prigorodny, east of Cherkessk, northern Caucasus. The aircraft's tail was found at 1.5 km from the rest of the wreckage, indicating that the aircraft may have broken up in mid-air. All 50 people aboard were killed.^[1]^[2]

Cause[]

The accident investigation found that the aircraft, which had recently returned from an extended period of service in the Congo, suffered massive corrosion which had caused the aircraft's tail to break off in flight.^[3]^[4]

The accident was blamed on a failure to detect corrosion during inspection, with the allowable time between inspections and maintenance being exceeded.^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Flight International 26 March – 1 April 1997, p. 5.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Air International May 1997, p. 266.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. 30 October 2005. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
^ Air International August 1997, p. 72.

"Airline Safety Review". Flight International, 21 – 27 January 1998. p. 38.
"Airscene: Commercial Accidents". Air International, May 1997, Vol 52 No 5. p. 266. ISSN 0306-5634.
"Airscene: Commercial Accidents". Air International, August 1997, Vol 53 No 2. p. 73. ISSN 0306-5634.
"An-24 crashes en route to Turkey". Flight International, 26 March – 1 April 1997, p. 5.

Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union and Russia

Soviet
Union

1930s	Osoaviakhim-1 SSSR-V6 Osoaviakhim
1950s	1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash Aeroflot Flight 04 1958 Aeroflot Tu-104 Kanash crash Aeroflot Flight 315 (1959) Aeroflot Flight 120
1960s	Aeroflot Flight 315 (1960) Aeroflot Flight 207 Aeroflot Flight 036 Austrian Airlines Flight 901 Aeroflot Flight 068 Aeroflot Flight 245 Aeroflot Flight 902 Aeroflot Flight 415 Aeroflot Flight 213 (1962) Aeroflot Flight 191 Aeroflot Flight 03 Aeroflot Flight 25 Aeroflot Flight 012 Aeroflot Flight 366 Aeroflot Flight 663 Aeroflot Flight 721 Aeroflot Flight 101/X-20 Aeroflot Flight 542 Aeroflot Flight 513 Aeroflot Flight 99 Aeroflot Flight 065 Aeroflot Flight 2723 Aeroflot Flight 5003 (1967) Aeroflot Flight 2230 Aeroflot Flight L-51 Aeroflot Flight 15 1969 Yukhnov mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight N-826
1970s	Aeroflot Flight U-45 Aeroflot Flight 1661 Aeroflot Flight 3630 1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash 1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash Aeroflot Flight 1969 Aeroflot Flight 1912 Malév Hungarian Airlines Flight 110 Aeroflot Flight 773 Aeroflot Flight 2174 Aeroflot Flight 1491 Aeroflot Flight 558 Aeroflot Flight 1036 Aeroflot Flight 217 Japan Airlines Flight 446 Aeroflot Flight 6263 Aeroflot Flight 141 Aeroflot Flight 630 Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307 Aeroflot Flight 6551 Aeroflot Flight 109 Aeroflot Flight A-13 Aeroflot Flight 3932 Aeroflot Flight 964 Aeroflot Flight 19 Aeroflot Flight 2022 1974 Leningrad Aeroflot Il-18 crash 1974 Surgut mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 2003 Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1976) Aeroflot Flight 909 Aeroflot Flight 1802 Aeroflot Flight 418 1976 Anapa mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 2415 Aeroflot Flight N-36 Aeroflot Flight 3843 Aeroflot Flight 5003 (1977) Aeroflot Flight 331 1977 Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 hijacking Aeroflot Flight B-2 Aeroflot Flight 6709 1978 Yegoryevsk Tu-144 crash Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Aeroflot Flight 1080 Aeroflot Flight 1691 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 5484
1980s	Aeroflot Flight 4225 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash Aeroflot Flight 498 1981 Armenia mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 811 Aeroflot Flight 3603 Aeroflot Flight 8641 Aeroflot Flight 411 Aeroflot Flight 343 Aeroflot Flight 5463 Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Aeroflot Flight 601 Aeroflot Flight 3352 Aeroflot Flight 3519 Aeroflot Flight 7841 1985 Zolochiv mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 7425 Aeroflot Flight 101/435 Aeroflot Flight 2306 Aeroflot Flight 6502 Aeroflot Flight 892 Aeroflot Flight U-505 Aeroflot Flight N-528 Aeroflot Flight 699 Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)

Russia

1990s	Aeroflot Flight 2808 (1992) Sakha Avia Flight 301 (1993) Baikal Airlines Flight 130 (1994) Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9045 (1994) Aeroflot Flight 593 (1994) Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 (1995) Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023 (1997) Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash (1997)
2000s	Omsk An-70 crash (2001) Vladivostok Air Flight 352 (2001) Grozny Mi-8 crash (2001) Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 (2001) Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Flight 9064 (2001) Shelkovskaya Mi-8 crash (2002) Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 (2002) Khankala Mi-26 crash (2002) Russian aircraft bombings (2004) Armavia Flight 967 (2006) S7 Airlines Flight 778 (2006) UTair Flight 471 (2007) Shatoy Mi-8 crash (2007) Moskovia Airlines Flight 9675 (2008) Aeroflot Flight 821 (2008) Makhachkala Il-76 collision (2009) Yakutia Ilyushin Il-76 crash (2009)
2010s	Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 (2010) Smolensk air disaster (2010) Katekavia Flight 9357 (2010) Alrosa Flight 514 (2010) Dagestan Airlines Flight 372 (2010) Kolavia Flight 348 (2011) Garbuzovo Antonov An-148 crash (2011) RusAir Flight 9605 (2011) Angara Airlines Flight 9007 (2011) Avis-Amur Flight 9209 (2011) YAK-Service Flight 9633 (2011) UTair Flight 120 (2012) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2012) Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268 (2012) Polar Airlines Flight 9949 (2013) Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 (2013) Unijet Flight 074P (2014) Metrojet Flight 9268 (2015) Flydubai Flight 981 (2016) Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations Il-76 crash (2016) Skol Airlines Flight 9375 (2016) Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash (2016) Khabarovsk Airlines Flight 463 (2017) Saratov Airlines Flight 703 (2018) UTair Flight 579 (2018) Aeroflot Flight 1492 (2019) Angara Airlines Flight 200 (2019) Ural Airlines Flight 178 (2019)
2020s	Volga-Dnepr Airlines Flight 4066 (2020) Kemerovo parachute Let L-410UVP-E crash (2021) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2021) Siberian Light Aviation Flight 42 (2021) Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 (2021) Menzelinsk parachute Let L-410UVP-E crash (2021) Grodno Aviakompania Flight 1252 (2021)

This includes accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union, and Russia only. It does not include accidents in other post-Soviet states after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1997

Jan 9 Comair Flight 3272
Feb 4 Israeli helicopter disaster
Mar 18 Stavropolskaya AA Flight 1023
Apr 19 Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 106
May 8 China Southern Airlines Flight 3456
Jul 17 Sempati Air Flight 304
Jul 30 Air Littoral Flight 701
Jul 31 FedEx Express Flight 14
Aug 6 Korean Air Flight 801
Aug 7 Fine Air Flight 101
Aug 10 Formosa Airlines Flight 7601
Sep 3 Vietnam Airlines Flight 815
Sep 6 Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 238
Sep 8 Helikopter Service Flight 451
Sep 13 Namibia mid-air collision
Sep 26 Garuda Indonesia Flight 152
Oct 10 Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553
Dec 6 Russian Air Force Antonov An-124
Dec 15 Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183
Dec 16 Air Canada Flight 646
Dec 17 Aerosvit Flight 241
Dec 19 SilkAir Flight 185
Dec 28 United Airlines Flight 826

1996 ◀ ▶ 1998