An-22 Antei Cock - Losses

During the entire operation of the Anteev, 7 vehicles were lost.

1. July 18, 1970 An-22 CCCP-09303 (00340207), 81st brigade. The ship's commander is 1st class military pilot, deputy commander of the 2nd aviation squadron, Major A.Ya. Boyarintsev. July 18, at 17:30 Moscow time, with a cargo of food and medicine, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean 47 minutes after takeoff from Keflavik airport (Iceland). The plane was heading to Lima (Peru) to deliver aid to earthquake victims. There were no radiograms indicating any failures from the crew. The reason for the disappearance of the plane could not be established. According to all documents, the commander of the ship was Major Boyarintsev A.Ya., but in fact the commander of the ship was the commander of the aviation detachment, Major Ageev E.A. Major Boyarintsev A.Ya. He was part of the crew as an instructor and gave permission to the ship’s commander to fly on international air routes. The navigator, on-board engineer, and senior on-board technician at JSC also gave access to their trainees. On board were specialists from the regiment's aviation engineering service and passengers.

2. December 19, 1970 An-22 CCCP-09305 (9340205), 81st brigade. The ship's commander is 1st class military pilot, commander of the 1st aviation squadron, Lieutenant Colonel Skok N.S. On December 19, 1970, 40 minutes after takeoff from Dhaka Airport (India), all 4 engines turned off mid-flight. One of them was launched, but when landing at Panagarh airport (India), the An-22 flew over almost the entire runway (2200 m) at an altitude of one meter. During leveling, a right roll occurred, which led to the wing console touching the ground, its destruction, fuel leakage and intensive fire development. The plane, while moving on uneven ground, collapsed and burned. The reason is the separation of one of the rear propeller blades of the 2nd power plant, which destroyed the engine control wiring. The landing of the crew of Lieutenant Colonel N.S. Skok. can be safely included in textbooks. The plane was planning for the airfield from an altitude of approximately 6000 m. There was no panic among the crew, which is confirmed by the recording on the MS-61B tape recorder. In this situation, the on-board engineer made several attempts to start the engines and started one of them. The only reason for the disaster was that the crew was unable to reduce the landing speed; there was simply nothing to suppress it with: the flaps and landing gear were retracted, the energy from the batteries was spent trying to start the engines, and the navigation instruments did not work.

3. December 21, 1976 An-22 USSR-09318 (00340501), 566 vtap. The ship's commander is military pilot 1st class, Major V.A. Efremov. On December 21, 1976, in Seshche, while performing a test flight to measure forces in the control wiring elements at maximum deflection of the rudders, the aircraft entered a deep slide. Trying not to lose altitude, the commander took the helm. This led to the aircraft reaching critical angles of attack and flipping over. The plane fell from a height of approximately 6000 m on its “back”, breaking up in the air... This was the next stage of military testing without the involvement of test pilots. The crew was selected as a team. No one could imagine how the plane would behave... Subsequently, the angle of deflection of the rudders was limited and pilots were advised not to use rudders at all when making turns; the Antey had enough ailerons.

4. June 8, 1977 An-22 USSR-09349 (02340405), 566th class. The ship's commander is military pilot 1st class, Major A.N. Stenyaev. On June 8, 1977, while taking off from the Seshcha airfield, the plane did not take off from the ground on takeoff and crashed into a forest. The crew was not injured, the car cannot be restored. The reason is the spontaneous operation of the steering wheel locking system.

5. June 6, 1980 An-22 USSR-09311 (043481251 (0601)), 8th flight. The commander of the ship is military pilot 1st class, Major V.I. Shigaev. On June 6, 1980, while landing at Vnukovo airport, a fire broke out on board the plane due to “thermal runaway” of the batteries. After the report about the fire, the crew was not informed about the landing airport for a long time; after all, it was a “Moscow zone”. The fire and smoke in the cabin increased. The crew was allowed to enter the unpaved runway at Vnukovo Airport. The crew was unable to keep the plane on the glide path, they landed on rough terrain before the runway, a reinforced concrete airport lighting pole fell on the cabin, the plane collapsed and burned. Three crew members were killed: the ship's commander, the on-board engineer and the translator. The rest managed to get out of the destroyed and burning plane. It should be noted that until this time the battery compartment was not equipped with fire sensors and a fire extinguishing system. Only after this disaster were sensors installed in the compartment and an opening porthole installed, through which, in the event of a fire, one of the crew members was supposed to discharge a portable fire-fighting cylinder.

6. November 11, 1992 An-22 USSR-09303 (053483299 (0610)), 8th flight. The ship's commander is military pilot 1st class, Major I.P. Misyutin. On November 11, 1992, while taking off from the Migalovo airfield (Tver), the plane entered the “second critical mode” and fell in the area of ??the first turn. 33 people died. The plane was performing a commercial flight Tver - Yerevan. It is no secret that in those days BTA tried to earn at least some money by any means possible, providing its planes for transporting goods of all kinds of commercial companies. The crew could only estimate the weight of the cargo that was loaded onto the plane “by eye” and from the invoices. No weighings were carried out (there are simply no scales!). Guessing that the plane was overloaded, the flight engineer drained 10 tons of fuel; more was not possible, because... would not be enough to reach Yerevan. But that didn't help either. According to the decoding of MSRP-64, the take-off weight reached 264 tons! The plane was overloaded by almost 20 tons. Members of the commission came to this conclusion when they weighed rolls of leather that were loaded onto the plane at the crash site. In the invoices, one roll weighed 30 kg, and at the scene of the disaster - 36 kg (this takes into account that it was fried in the fire)!

7. January 19, 1994 An-22 RA-09331 (02340408), 8th flight. The ship's commander is military pilot 1st class, Major A.Ya. Credin. On January 19, 1994, during takeoff from the Migalovo airfield, a strong right bank occurred. The crew tried to make an emergency landing of the car, but literally 10 m of height was not enough... Presumably the cause of the roll was icing of the wing. Two crew members survived. The history of this disaster is as follows: on January 18, 1994, while flying from Templin (Germany) to Rostov-on-Don, due to weather conditions, the crew of Major A.Ya. Kredin. with an instructor, deputy squadron commander, Major Nikolaichik A.V., landed in Tver, at his Migalovo airfield. They were unable to roll the plane into the parking lot on icy taxiways. The plane remained parked on the taxiway. It snowed at night. The next day, January 19, the crew flew to Rostov-on-Don. On takeoff, the plane reached critical angles of attack. The crew did not have enough altitude to take the plane out. The plane's right plane touched the ground, and the plane fell off. Further along the plane's path were centuries-old trees, through which the plane passed as if through a comb. Two crew members, including Major Nikolaychik, survived. The commission made public the cause of the disaster: a break in the right aileron control rod in the area of the 4th rib of the wing (in the place where the wing broke off when it hit the ground). Representatives of the Antonov Design Bureau did not agree with the commission’s conclusions. During testing, "Antey" took off and landed safely with the aileron locked. In the event of a thrust failure, the aileron would remain in a neutral position due to the oncoming flow. Presumably the cause of the roll was icing of the wing that was not detected in time while the aircraft was parked on the ground. The funny thing is that they proved to the members of the commission that before takeoff the plane was specially treated with Arktika anti-icing fluid, and according to documents, the airfield maintenance battalion had not had it for several months...

8. December 28, 2010 An-22A RA-09343 (043482272), 76th Guards Air Force. Crew commander - Major Andrey Anatolyevich Belov. On December 28, 2010, at about 21.30, in the area of the village of Maloye Skuratovo, Tula Region, an An-22 crashed in difficult weather conditions while flying from Voronezh to Migalovo (Tver). A crater with a diameter of about 20 m and a depth of 4 m formed at the crash site. The wreckage of the aircraft was scattered over a radius of 800 m. 12 people died (prime crew and reserve).

Attention misinformation! The captainsim website reports an alleged An-22 crash on 10/28/1984 in the Kabul area. This is not true. There were no Anteev losses in Afghanistan.