Statuts: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Date: | samedi 1 janvier 2011 |
Heure: | 15:00 |
Type/Sous-type: | Tupolev Tu-154B-2 |
Compagnie: | Kolavia |
Immatriculation: | RA-85588 |
Numéro de série: | 83A588 |
Année de Fabrication: | 1983 |
Heures de vol: | 32354 |
Cycles: | 13147 |
Moteurs: | 3 Kuznetsov NK-8-2U |
Equipage: | victimes: 0 / Ã bord: 8 |
Passagers: | victimes: 3 / Ã bord: 126 |
Total: | victimes: 3 / Ã bord: 134 |
Dégats de l'appareil: | Détruit |
Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Lieu de l'accident: | Surgut Airport (SGC) ( Fédération de Russie)
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Élévation des lieux de l'accident: | 61 m (200 feet) amsl |
Phase de vol: | En attente (STD) |
Nature: | Transport de Passagers Nat. |
Aéroport de départ: | Surgut Airport (SGC/USRR), Fédération de Russie |
Aéroport de destination: | Moskva-Domodedovo Airport (DME/UUDD), Fédération de Russie |
Numéro de vol: | 348 |
Détails:A Tupolev 154B-2 passenger jet, registered RA-85588, was damaged beyond repair in an accident at Surgut Airport (SGC), Russia. There were 126 passengers and eight crew members on board. The airplane operated on a flight KGL348 from Surgut Airport (SGC) to Moskva-Domodedovo Airport (DME).
Three passengers died and about 32 were seriously injured. The airplane was destroyed by fire.
Initial reports indicate that the airplane had been towed to the main taxiway for engine startup. A short circuit occurred while the AC generators were connected to the aircraft's electrical system after start-up of the engines. A fire erupted in the rear, spreading quickly through the main cabin. The crew shut down the engines and initiated an evacuation.
The Interstate Aviation Committee reported that engines no. 1, 2 and 3 and the APU were not the source of the fire. The fire started in the rear of the aircraft in the area of frames 62-65.
Probable Cause:
The cause of the fire was an electrical arc produced by electrical currents exceeding ten to twenty times the nominal loads when two generators not synchronised with each other were brought online but got connected together instead of being connected to parallel busses.
The unsynchronised operation of the generators can be attributed to:
- Poor technical conditions of contacts TKS233DOD responsible for connecting the generators with the electrical busses, that were damaged by prolonged operation without maintenance. A contact normally open was welded and fractured insulation material moved between contacts that are normally closed. These abnormal contact positions led to the connection between #2 and #3 generators.
- Differences in the schematic diagrams of generator 2 and generators 1 and 3. When the switch is moved from "check" to "enable" with no delay in the "neutral" position generator 2 is brought online without time delay which leads to increased wear of normally closed contacts in the TKS233DOD unit.
- The specific design of the electrical systems to ensure power supply to each bus from either the APU or either engine integrated drive generator.
Accident investigation:

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Investigating agency: | MAK Russia |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 270 days (9 months) | Accident number: | Final report | Download report: | Final report
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Sources:
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At least one dead, three missing in plane explosion in Siberia (Update 3) (RIA)»
MAK Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC)» Russian Ministry of Health statement
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Russian Ministry of Transport statement
Photos
accident date:
01-01-2011type: Tupolev Tu-154B-2
registration: RA-85588
accident date:
01-01-2011type: Tupolev Tu-154B-2
registration: RA-85588
accident date:
01-01-2011type: Tupolev Tu-154B-2
registration: RA-85588
Aircraft history
30 NOV 1983 |
CCCP-85588 |
Aeroflot / Magadan |
registered
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JUN 1993 |
RA-85588 |
Aeroflot |
new registration
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OCT 1994 |
RA-85588 |
Magadan Avia |
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AUG 1999 |
RA-85588 |
Vladivostok Air
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APR 2007 |
RA-85588 |
Kogalymavia
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» source:
Soviet Transports
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposée destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Surgut Airport et Moskva-Domodedovo Airport est de 2125 km (1328 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tel qu'ils sont connus à ce jour.