Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 03 MAY 1985 |
| Time: | ca 12:00 |
| Type: | Antonov 26 |
| Operator: | Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | 101 red |
| C/n / msn: | 9506 |
| First flight: | 1980 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1756 |
| Cycles: | 2346 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15 |
| Collision casualties: | Fatalities: 79 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Zolochiv (Ukraine)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Lvov-Snilow Airport (LWO/UKLL), Ukraine |
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A Tupolev 134A (CCCP-65856), descending for Lvov, collided with an Air Force Antonov 26 (call-sign CCCP-26492) which had just taken off from Lvov.
The head-on collision occurred at an altitude of FL130
PROBABLE CAUSE: Violations of air traffic control rules by the civil approach and the military controllers due to misidentification of the location of both aircraft in the area of the navigational station.
Events:
Sources:
» Soviet Transports
» Aviation Disasters / D. Gero
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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Antonov 26
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- 1403 built
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