PZL-Mielec AN-2 crash, Jun 15, 2015, Rostov-on-Don
PZL-Mielec AN-2 accident on June 15, 2015 near Rostov-on-Don, Rostov oblast, Russia with no fatalities. Cause: BAAA summary of the Interstate Aviation...
- Date: June 15, 2015
- Aircraft: PZL-Mielec AN-2
- Location: Rostov-on-Don, Rostov oblast, Russia
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: BAAA summary of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) investigation: flight in a known defective aircraft without a valid certificate of airworthiness, leading to engine failure, collision with power lines and a fire; the pilot's rejected takeoff decision could have prevented the accident.
On 15 June 2015 an An 2 operated by Vodoley was on a crop spraying flight to a farm field in the Tatsinsky District of Rostov Oblast, carrying 1200 litres of pesticide, a pilot and a farmer's son. Shortly after takeoff, while approaching the field at low height, the engine lost power, and the aircraft hit power cables and crashed in a field and burned. The pilot escaped unhurt, the boy was injured, and the aircraft was destroyed by fire; it had no valid certificate of airworthiness and its overhaul time had been exceeded.