Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-100 crash, Feb 14, 2008, Yerevan...
Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-100 accident on February 14, 2008 near Yerevan-Zvartnots, Armavir, Armenia with no fatalities. Cause: Asymmetric loss of lift...
- Date: February 14, 2008
- Aircraft: Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-100
- Location: Yerevan-Zvartnots, Armavir, Armenia
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- Cause: Asymmetric loss of lift caused by frost contaminating the wing during takeoff, most likely from cold fuel after the previous flight. Wing anti-icing was not switched on, and Transport Canada later issued an airworthiness directive requiring wing anti-icing in the final taxi stage.
A Belavia CRJ-100 departing Yerevan for Minsk banked left on takeoff, its left wingtip struck the runway, and it rolled right, broke a wing and burned. The aircraft came to rest inverted, but all three crew and eighteen passengers survived. Frost on the wing was identified as the main factor.