Posted on 12/29/2023 11:38:12 AM PST by Red Badger
A Soviet-era Antonov-24 aircraft carrying 30 passengers landed on a frozen river near an airport in Russia's far east on Thursday because of pilot error, transport prosecutors said. Screenshot courtesy of NBC/Youtube Dec. 28 (UPI) -- While flying through Russia's far east, a Polar Airlines flight touched down unexpectedly on a frozen Kolyma river due to a pilot error early Thursday, the airline said. No injuries were reported.
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According to a release from the Russian airline, flight YAP217 was on the route "Yakutsk-Zyryanka-Srednekolymsk," when the Antonov-24 aircraft landed off the runway of Zyryanka airport in the Yakutia region.
Created in 1959, the An-24 was designed for short- and medium-haul airlines.
According to Polar Airlines, 30 passengers and four crew members were on board the aircraft. The plane was not damaged.
"The territorial department of the Federal Air Transport Agency has ordered an investigation into this fact," the Polar Airlines statement reads.
"According to preliminary information, the cause of the aviation incident was an error by the crew in piloting the aircraft," a spokesperson for the Eastern Siberian transport prosecutor said in a statement.
Their first clue should have been no visible runaway marker lights.
Back in the 70’s, a commercial airliner accidentally landed at the Troutdale, Oregon airport which is about 5 miles east of Portland International. IIRC, both pilots were terminated soon thereafter.
Then they had to figure out how to get it off the 5,300 foot runway
C-17 Globemaster lands at civilian airport.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/air-force-c-17-globemaster-iii-makes-surprise-landing-at-peter-o-knight/1241349/
Runway...frozen river. It’s easy to make such a mistake. It happens to all of us. Once, I turned onto a roadway and discovered it was river, or maybe it was a train track. I truly can’t remember. Oh, never mind. That never happened. Although once as a teen and on an extremely foggy night I turned onto the incorrect road when heading home.
Really though, how does a pilot make such a mistake? Between computers and pilot experience one would think that error would be impossible to make.
Now that I’ve commented and in the great FR tradition of posting first and reading the article later, I’ll go back and read the full article.
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