| 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 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| 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) |
| Irkutsk Airport (IKT/UIII) | |
| Investigating agency: | MAK |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
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.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
Newsru
Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations
tvzvezda.ru
Location
Images:
photo (c) MAK; nr Rybnyi Uyan, Kachug Region; 03 July 2016
photo (c) MAK; nr Rybnyi Uyan, Kachug Region; 01 July 2016
photo (c) MAK; July 2016
photo (c) MAK; July 2016
photo (c) Toshi Aoki - JP Spotters; Moskva-Zhukovsky (Ramenskoye) Airport (/UUBW); 08 August 2012; (CC:by-sa)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Oct-2025 09:13 | ASN | Updated [Accident report, ] |
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