ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326179
| Date: | Thursday 26 October 1989 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Antonov An-26 |
| Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | 09 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 37 / Occupants: 37 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 35 km N of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport (PKC) -
 Russia
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport (PKC/UHPP) |
The An-26 military transport plane flew into the side of a 2310 m-high mountain at an altitude of 1500 m. The pilot descended VFR in instrument weather.
The airplane operated for the Air Force Strategic Missile Forces.
Sources:
Volkskrant 28.10.89
airdisaster.ru
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