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Aircraft accident in Russia, September 2018

UTair Flight 579
Accident
The aftermath of VQ-BJI, the Boeing 737 involved
Date	1 September 2018 (2018-09-01)
Summary	Runway overrun due to pilot error and windshear
Site	Sochi International Airport, Sochi, Russia 43°27′07″N 39°57′39″E / 43.451935°N 39.960957°E / 43.451935; 39.960957
Total fatalities	1
Aircraft
VQ-BJI, the aircraft involved, seen here in 2013
Aircraft type	Boeing 737-8AS
Operator	UTair
IATA flight No.	UT579
ICAO flight No.	UTA579
Call sign	UTAIR 579
Registration	VQ-BJI
Flight origin	Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia
Destination	Sochi International Airport, Sochi, Russia
Occupants	172
Passengers	166
Crew	6
Fatalities	0
Injuries	18
Survivors	172
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities	1 (indirect)

1000km
620miles

Vnukovo International Airport

Sochi International Airport,

On September 1, 2018, UTair Flight 579, a Boeing 737-800 on a scheduled domestic flight from Moscow to Sochi, Russia, with 164 passengers and 6 crew, overran the runway and caught fire while landing at Sochi, injuring 18 occupants. One airport employee died of a heart attack.

Aircraft and crew

The aircraft involved in the accident, manufactured in 2002 was a Boeing 737-8AS with serial number 29937 and Bermudan registration VQ-BJI. The aircraft had logged 45745 airframe hours and 23434 takeoff and landing cycles.

The 51-year-old captain Alexei Alekseevich Shnyrev had 14,000 flight hours, including 6,391 hours on the Boeing 737. The 53-year-old first officer Sergei Eduardovich Ivanov had 12,277 flight hours, with 5,147 of them on the Boeing 737. Both pilots were type rated on both the Boeing 737 Classic and Next Generation variants and had completed crew resource management training. The first officer had also undergone windshear training in May 2018.

Accident

The flight departed from Vnukovo Airport at 12:30 am local time with 166 passengers and six crew. The flight crew aborted the first two approaches to Sochi before committing to a third that resulted in the overrun. The aircraft touched down at 2:57 am and overran runway 06, came to rest on the bed of the Mzymta River and caught fire, prompting an evacuation.

Eighteen occupants were injured; injuries included burns and carbon monoxide poisoning. Transportation Minister Yevgeny Dietrich confirmed that an airport employee died of a heart attack during the emergency response.

Thunderstorms were reported over Sochi at the time of the accident. The aircraft received damage to its belly, wings and engines. The airport operator reported that the fire was extinguished within eight minutes.

Investigation

An accident investigation was launched by the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) of Russia. Two days after the crash on September 3, the IAC reported that the flight recorders had been recovered from the aircraft, the data were retrieved successfully and would be analyzed. The committee completed examination of the accident site and was making preparations for moving the aircraft. The United States National Transportation Safety Board, representing the State of Design and State of Manufacture of the aircraft, and the United Kingdom's Air Accidents Investigation Branch, representing the State of Registry, were invited to participate in the investigation.

The Investigative Committee of Russia also launched a probe into the crash, with a Southern Transport Department official stating that "a criminal investigation has been opened into the emergency landing ... on suspicion of inadequate services with a risk to clients' health."

The IAC released a preliminary report on November 6, 2018.

On December 12, 2019, the IAC released their final report on the accident. The cause of the accident was the flight crew ignoring repetitive windshear warnings when the aircraft experienced low-level horizontal windshear and the crew's decision to land on the runway when its conditions at the time of the accident prohibited doing so. Contributing factors included violation of standard operation procedures, improper use of the autopilot, poor crew resource management training, and late deployment of the spoilers.

Notes

The aircraft was a Boeing 737-800 model; Boeing formerly assigned a unique code for each company that bought one of its aircraft, which was applied as a suffix to the model number; hence "737-8AS", designating a 737-800 ordered by Ryanair.

References

^ "Jet crashes on landing in Russian city". BBC News. September 1, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
^ Hradecky, Simon. "Accident: UTAir B738 at Sochi on Sep 1st 2018, overran runway on landing". avherald.com. The Aviation Herald. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
^ "Aircraft accident Boeing 737-8AS (WL) VQ-BJI Adler/Sochi Airport (AER)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
"Final Report Boeing 737-800 VQ-BJI accident" (PDF). skybrary.aero. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
^ "Final Report Boeing 737-800 VQ-BJI accident" (PDF). Interstate Aviation Committee. December 12, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
"Over a dozen injured after plane catches fire in Russia". New York Post. September 1, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
^ "Airport worker dies after plane's crash landing in Russia". September 1, 2018. Archived from the original on June 18, 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
"Boeing 737-800 VQ-BJI 01.09.2018". МЕЖГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ АВИАЦИОННЫЙ КОМИТЕТ.
"Промежуточный отчет самолет Boeing 737-800 VQ-BJI" [Interim Report Boeing 737-800 VQ-BJI] (PDF) (in Russian). Interstate Aviation Committee. November 6, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2020.

External links

Interstate Aviation Committee
- Boeing 737-800 VQ-BJI 01.09.2018
  - Final report
- Boeing 737-800 VQ-BJI 01.09.2018 (in Russian) – the Russian version is the report of record.
  - Preliminary report (in Russian)
  - Final report (in Russian)

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Jan 13 Pegasus Airlines Flight 8622Jan 17 Sapphire Aviation Bell UH-1H Iroquois crashFeb 11 Saratov Airlines Flight 703Feb 13 United Airlines Flight 1175Feb 16 Mexican Air Force Sikorsky UH-60M crashFeb 18 Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704Mar 6 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crashMar 11 Iran Bombardier Challenger 604 crashMar 11 New York City helicopter crashMar 12 US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211Mar 17 Philippines Piper PA-23 Apache crashApr 11 Algerian Air Force Il-76 crashApr 17 Southwest Airlines Flight 1380May 2 U.S. Air National Guard C-130 crashMay 14 Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633May 18 Cubana de Aviación Flight 972Jun 28 UY Aviation King Air C90 crashJul 10 Pretoria Convair 340 crashJul 28 Air Vanuatu Flight 241Jul 31 Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431Aug 4 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crashAug 4 K2 Aviation de Havilland Beaver crashAug 10 Horizon Air Q400 incidentAug 16 XiamenAir Flight 8667Sep 1 UTair Flight 579Sep 9 Yirol Let L-410 Turbolet crashSep 28 Air Niugini Flight 73Oct 27 Leicester helicopter crashOct 29 Lion Air Flight 610Nov 7 Sky Lease Cargo Flight 4854Nov 9 Fly Jamaica Airways Flight 256Nov 11 Air Astana Flight 1388Dec 19 Gatwick Airport drone incidentDec 24 Puebla helicopter crash

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