The accident would have occurred during the approach phase, at the time of landing, of the Tynda airport, located in the Russian East. According to the information available, the AN-24 Antonov would have “disappeared from the radars” and the rescuers discovered the fuselage of the flame about fifteen kilometers from the airfield. The occupants did not survive.
The plane involved, one year 24 registered RA-47315 and operated by Angara Airlines, a Russian company founded in 2000 and based in Irkoutsk, was built in 1976, according to Aviation Data Safety Network.
The Biturbopropop Regional Program was launched at the end of the 1950s by the Antonov Design Office (at the time of the Soviet Union, now Unión Ukraine).
Antonov has produced more than 1,000 planes of this type, a rustic but robust plane, designed to land on very summarized land and operate in difficult conditions, either in Russia, Afghanistan, the Middle East or even in Africa, explains an aeronautical specialist in BFM business. AN-24 have been, for example, operated by the United Nations for humanitarian missions.
Accidents in the past
Among Antonov AN-24 customers, the Russian company Aeroflot, which has a significant number of fatal accidents with this device, especially in the 1960s to 1980, according to Aviation Safety Network.
Other airlines recorded AN-24 accidents at the beginning of the device, among other United Arab airlines (Future Egytair) and Lot (Poland). The fleets were not subject to the same safety and maintenance measures as today.
According to the data of Angara Airlines, which operated the accident year 24, the company had seven AN-24 in 2015. Other AN-24 of the company have been involved in incidents in recent years, most of them without making victims (apart from an accident in 2011 and another in 2019). According to the information available, the navigability certificate (that is, its authorization to fly) from the RA-47315 had extended until 2036.
Source: BFM TV
