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accidents and incidents
the an-140 has suffered five major accidents. Two of them had no fatalities, and three had all on board killed.
In december 2002 an aircraft carrying many of ukraine's top aviation designers and engineers crashed into a mountainside as it was preparing to land in isfahan-iran, killing all 44 on board. The passengers, including some russian specialists and officials, were headed for the official inauguration of iran's version of another antonov plane, the an-140 commuter airliner, which is licensed by the design bureau. Iranian officials at first said they believed pilot error was to blame for the crash, but later said it was early to determine what caused the accident. The aircraft's flight data recorder was recovered but the results were never revealed.[5][6]
on 23 december 2005, azerbaijan airlines flight 217, an antonov an-140 4k-az48, plunged into the caspian sea about 20 miles north of the capital, baku. All 18 passengers and five crew members died. The plane was on its way to aktau. The airline has grounded its other remaining an-140 airplanes, and also postponed plans to purchase more of the type aircraft from ukraine.[7] investigations have discovered that three independent gyroscopes were not providing stabilised heading and altitude performance information to the crew early in the flight.[8]
the third accident (non-fatal) occurred on 12 august 2005 with a hesa iran-140 belonging to safiran airlines. One of the engines failed and the airplane tried to land at arak airport with the remaining engine. During landing, the aircraft overran the runway. The aircraft was badly damaged but there were no fatalities.
The fourth accident happened on 15 february 2006 in iran killing 5 pilots on board.[9] this airplane was also of the iranian type known as the hesa iran-140.
The fifth accident occurred on september 6, 2008 in kiev boryspil airport. A southern airlines ukraine an-140 coming from lviv suffered a front landing gear failure (stuck inside the aircraft fuselage). The aircraft landed on a specially prepared foam track using two intact landing gears. None suffered any injuries and the aircraft was put back to service in three weeks after a minor repair.[10]
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