Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
22AUG2006 at 1539LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
RA-85185
Location
 
Novgorodskoye
   
Flight number
  FV612
Schedule
 
Anapa - St Petersburg
 
Construction number
 
91A-894
Year of manufacture
 
1991
     
Crew on board
 
10
Pax on board
 
160
Crew fatalities
 
10
Pax fatalities
 
160
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
170

Circumstances
   
 
The aircraft left Anapa airport at 1505LT and reached rapidly the altitude of 11,700 metres. Crew sent a mayday call and the aircraft crashed in an open field near Novgorodskoye, Ukraine. All 170 occupants were killed. At the time of the accident, severe thunderstorm activity with turbulences was reported in the area. It seems that the aircraft was overstressed and stalled. It is also possible that the aircraft was overloaded at the time of the accident.
   
   









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