- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | August 29, 1996 |
Time: | 1022 |
Location: | Near Longyearbyen, Norway |
Operator: | Vnokovo Airlines |
Flight #: | 2801 |
Route: | Moscow - Svalbard |
AC Type: | Tupolev TU-154M |
Registration: | RA-85621 |
cn / ln: | 86A-742 |
Aboard: | 141 (passengers:129 crew:12) |
Fatalities: | 141 (passengers:129 crew:12) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The aircraft crashed 7 nm short of the runway into Operafjellet Mountain at an altitude of 2,900 ft. while attempting to land in poor weather. The crew did not use the usual approach which includes a turn over the ocean, but rather took a route that led through a narrow valley. Inadequate planning, unsatisfactory crew resource management and monitoring, not discontinuing the approach when procedural uncertainties existed and limited knowledge of the operating language and the actual airspace. The passengers were mainly Russian coal miners headed for a Russian mine on one of the Norwegian islands. |
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