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What: Local carrier FGUPKAP twin-engine Antonov An-28 en route from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Yelizovo to Palana
Where: Palana village, Russia
When: Sept 12, 2012 12:28 p.m.
Who: 12 passengers, 2 crew, ten fatalities
Update: Two flight recorders retrieved on Thursday are bound for Moscow for examination. So far, the investigator has said that the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airlines plane lacked a ground proximity warning system which had been due for installation by Oct 1. Survior Palana chief firefighter Vladimir Shabalkov told the press that he and the three other survivors had survived because they had been thrown from the plane before it slammed into the mountainside. They all had been seated in the tail-area of the plane.
THe name of the 500-meter-high Cedar covered hill where the crash occurred is Pyatibratka Mountain. The pilot may not have seen the slope, and might have tried to land too early.
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