Kemerovo – Novokuznetsk – Tashtagol

On May 7, 1982 at 08:42 PM, Kemerovo – Novokuznetsk – Tashtagol experienced a crash involving Antonov AN-2, operated by Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines, with the event recorded near Tashtagol Kemerovo oblast.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 5 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 2, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. On the leg from Novokuznetsk to Tashtagol of a flight from Kemerovo to Tashtagol, the crew encountered below minima weather conditions with low clouds and rain/snow falls. The crew decided to continue and deviated from the prescribed flight path to the left by 8 km when the airplane crashed at a height of 1,050 metres into the wooded slope of the cloud covered Mt Pustag (1,570 metres high) located some 25 km north of Tashtagol. All three crew members including a check pilot and both passengers were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration CCCP-02183, MSN 1122 473 02, year of manufacture 1959.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 52.7595°, 87.8484°.