ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144846
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| Date: | Friday 6 April 2012 |
| Time: | 16:46 LT |
| Type: |  AgustaWestland AW119 Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | Baltic Airlines |
| Registration: | RA-01980 |
| MSN: | 14776 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2011 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 57 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 5 km from Chernye Kamni, Karelia -
 Russia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | St. Petersburg |
| Chernye Kamni resort | |
| Investigating agency: | MAK |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The AgustaWestland AW119 Ke Koala Enhanced helicopter impacted the ice covered Lake Yanisyarvi, about 5km from Chernye Kamni (Black Rocks) resort. The two pilots and two passengers were seriously injured.
The most likely cause of the accident with the Agusta AW 119MKII RA-01980 helicopter was the crew’s loss of altitude control when flying in conditions of limited visibility and the “whiteness” of the underlying surface (lack of contrast and visibility of the natural horizon), which led, when performing a descending turn, to collision with the icy surface of the lake.
Contributing factors were:
- the absence in the regulatory documentation of recommendations on the use of meteorological terms of forecast detail for making decisions on departure during VFR flights;
- the absence in the regulatory documentation of requirements for maintaining the minimum safe altitude when flying on routes below the lower flight level outside the airfield area under VFR conditions;
- lack of technology for performing a multi-crew flight on aircraft whose flight manual determines the minimum crew composition of one pilot.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/www.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-04/06/c_131511741.htm
http://tass.com/archive/673181
http://lifenews.ru/news/87991 (place of incident)
https://mak-iac.org/russian/investigations/2012/report_ra-01980.pdf
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Apr-2012 10:40 | Gnuss | Added |
| 06-Apr-2012 10:44 | Anon. | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 06-Apr-2012 11:19 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Apr-2012 11:45 | krasatpi | Updated [Registration, Source] |
| 06-Apr-2012 11:46 | krasatpi | Updated [Damage] |
| 06-Apr-2012 13:30 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2012 23:34 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Registration, Operator, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Apr-2012 13:02 | Hirurg | Updated [Registration] |
| 19-May-2012 10:31 | Geno | Updated [Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 29-Jan-2013 13:26 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Jan-2013 13:31 | TB | Updated [Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 29-Jan-2013 13:35 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Sep-2013 17:39 | krasatpi | Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Jan-2024 20:33 | harro | Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
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