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Smoke Cancels Russian Flight
What: Yakovlev Yak-42 Where: Surgut Airport, Russia When: Dec 5, 2012 Who: 120 aboard, 113 passengers Why: Taxi for take-off was aborted when the Yak 42′s cabin filled with smoke. The captain reported the smoke to ATC, and passengers evacuated safely. No cause for the smoke has been determined. »
Vladimir Puchkov in Emergency Landing in Russia
What: Yak-42 en route to Novosibirsk Where: Tolmachevo Airport When: Nov 30, 2012 Who: 38 aboard, no injuries Why: Vladimir Puchkov’s transportation failed when a Yak-42 lost one of three engines while en route to Novosibirsk. THe engine began to vibrate and was shut down, which is standard procedure. Pilots made a safe landing... »
Two Die in Russian Flight School Engine Failure
What: Sasovskoye Civil Aviation Flying School Yakovlev YAK-18T Where: Petelino, Russia When: Nov 7, 2012 Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities Why: On November 7, 2012 at 2:36 pm, on the Petelino landing pad the Yak-18 RA-44302 Sasovskoye (Sasovo) flight school MTU CR FATA plane was in an accident. The crew performed accounting and training... »
Tragic Crash of Free Club Flight
What: Aeroclub “Aviaservice” Yakovlev Yak-18T Where: Katunino, Russia When: Sept 1, 2012 Who: 4 aboard, 4 fatalities Why: At 4.45 pm Moscow time, the light Yak-18 crashed in the Russian village of Katunino. There were four aboard the plane at the time of the crash. The plane crashed 300 meters from the runway and... »
Two NZ Doctors Lost in Crash of Private Plane
What: Yakovlev Yak-52TW Where: Feilding, New Zealand When: Jan 23 2012 10:45 a.m. Who: 2 fatalities Why: A plane left Taonui Aerodrome and twenty-five minutes later was engaging in acrobatics,when it flew upside down, made a loop and then crash dived on to the grounds of the Timona Recreational Reserve. The plane shattered into... »
Yak Shut down
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Andrei Mihaila What: UTAir/Tulpar Airlines Yakovlev Yak-42 en route from Moscow Vnukovo to Volgograd with 57 passengers and 7 crew When: Dec 10th 2011 Who: 57 passengers and 7 crew Why: While en route, the Yak developed engine problems in the left engine. The... »
Last Surviving Hockey Hero Succumbs
Aleksandr Galimov, the last of the Russian Hockey team had been found after the crash standing in the river, tearing off his burning shirt. He survived the crash but died Monday at the burn clinic, five days after the crash. The plane struggled to gain altitude on takeoff and crashed about a mile from... »
Yak 42 Crashes on Takeoff from Yaroslavl, Hockey Team Wiped Out
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Senior What: Tatarstan Air/ Yak Service Yakovlev Yak-42 en route from Yaroslavl Russia to Minsk Belarus Where: Yaroslavl When: Sep 7th 2011, 16:05 Who: 37 passengers (including the Lokomotiv Yaroslav Hockey Team) 8 crew Why: The flight took off from Yaroslavl but failed to... »
Runway Overrun at Vnukovo
What: Gazpromavia Yakovlev Yak-42 en route from Gelendzik to Moscow Vnukovo Where: Moscow When: May 14th 2011 Who: flight crew only Why: On landing at Vnukovo, the plane overran the runway, with no resultant damage or injury. Apparently the plane landed long and then hydroplaned, according to witnesses. The runway was temporarily closed to... »
Russian Yak Sustains Damage
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Dmitry Belov What: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Aviation Enterprise Yakovlev Yak-40 en route from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Ossora Where: Russia When: Apr 16th 2011 Who: 21 passengers 5 crew Why: Due to bad weather, the pilots rerouted to Ust-Kamchatsk. On landing, they overran the runway by 300 meters... »
