Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-200 crash, Jan 29, 2013 (21 killed)
Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-200 accident on January 29, 2013 near Almaty, Almaty Province, Kazakhstan with 21 fatalities. Cause: The go-around in fog...
- Date: January 29, 2013
- Aircraft: Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-200
- Location: Almaty, Almaty Province, Kazakhstan
- Fatalities: 21
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The go-around in fog below minimums ended in an elevator-induced dive into the ground. The Interstate Aviation Committee could not establish why the dive occurred, and cited crew resource management failures, a non-response to the EGPWS warning, a nose-up somatogravic illusion and the pilot's impaired health.
A SCAT Airlines CRJ-200 on a scheduled flight from Kokshetau made a Cat IIIb ILS approach to Almaty in fog with about 40 m vertical visibility. The captain initiated a go-around at about 180 m, then pushed the control column forward, and the aircraft dived into a snow-covered field about 1,400 m short of the runway. All 21 occupants were killed.