Odessa - Donetsk

On February 13, 2013 at 06:09 PM, Odessa - Donetsk experienced a crash involving Antonov AN-24, operated by South Airlines - Pivdenni Avialinii - Yuzhnye Avialinii, with the event recorded near Donetsk Donetsk Oblast.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

52 people were known to be on board, 5 fatalities were recorded, 47 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 9.6%.

Crew on board: 8, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 44, passenger fatalities: 5, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. On final approach to Donetsk-Sergei Prokofiev Airport, during the last segment, the aircraft banked right to a angle of 48°, causing the right wing to struck the ground. The aircraft overturned and crashed in a grassy area to the left of runway 08, coming to rest upside down. Five passengers were killed while all other occupants were injured. The aircraft was destroyed. It was performing a charter flight from Odessa with 44 football fans on their way to a match between Shakhtar Donetsk and Borussia Dortmund. At the time of the accident, the visibility was poor due to the night and foggy conditions. The horizontal visibility was reported to be 250 metres with an RVR of 750 metres for runway 08 and vertical visibility of 200 feet.

Aircraft reference details include registration UR-WRA, MSN 3 73 087 09, year of manufacture 1973.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 48.0319°, 37.7840°.