PZL-Mielec AN-28 crash, Jul 16, 2004, Østre Æra
PZL-Mielec AN-28 accident on July 16, 2004 near Østre Æra, Hedmark, Norway with no fatalities. Cause: Engine power loss after the aircraft entered...
- Date: July 16, 2004
- Aircraft: PZL-Mielec AN-28
- Location: Østre Æra, Hedmark, Norway
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Engine power loss after the aircraft entered icing and turbulence near a cumulonimbus cloud at low power, combined with a lack of crew training and checklists for the emergency; the Norwegian AIBN report discusses these factors.
Two Rigas Aeroklubs AN-28s were dropping parachutists at Ostre Aera, Norway, when one aircraft flew close to a cumulonimbus cloud and picked up icing and turbulence. Both engines stopped after the anti-icing system was switched on at low power, and restart attempts failed. The crew made a high-speed emergency landing on the airstrip, the aircraft overran into a ditch and came to rest inverted, but no one was seriously hurt.