Accident Ilyushin Il-76TD RA-76840,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 320052

Date:	Friday 1 July 2016
Time:	11:13
Type:	Ilyushin Il-76TD
Owner/operator:	Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations
Registration:	RA-76840
MSN:	1033417553
Year of manufacture:	1994
Total airframe hrs:	9064 hours
Cycles:	3069 flights
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	9 km ESE Rybnyi Uyan, Kachug region - Russia
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Fire fighting
Departure airport:	Irkutsk Airport (IKT/UIII)
Destination airport:	Irkutsk Airport (IKT/UIII)
Investigating agency:	MAK
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
An Ilyushin 76 firefighting aircraft was destroyed when it impacted wooded terrain 9 km east-southeast from the settlement of Rybnyi Uyan in the Kachug Region, on the side of a volcanic cone. The Il-76 transport plane was equipped with spray tanks to extinguish wildfires in the Bayanday district of the Irkutsk region. It departed Irkutsk Airport at 10:19 hours and climbed to FL100. En route the pressure was set at 1007 hPa, which had been reported by the air traffic controller. About 11:02 hours the flight crew initiated their descent towards the forest fires. After carrying out a 180 degree turn over a mountainous area, the Ground Proximity Warning System activated several times. The aircraft was flying at a height of about 210 m agl and headed towards one of the higher mountains in the area. At 11:13 the aircraft impacted the wooded slope of the mountain and disintegrated.
Searchers located the wreckage on July 3.

Sources:

Newsru
Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations
tvzvezda.ru

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Images:

photo (c) MAK; nr Rybnyi Uyan, Kachug Region; 03 July 2016