1995 An-70 air disaster Totally Explained

Everything about 1995 An-70 Air Disaster totally explained

On February 10, 1995, at 16:09 CET, the first prototype of the Ukrainian Antonov An-70 transport aircraft crashed during a test flight in Kyiv Oblast. The plane belonging to Antonov company collided with an escorting An-72 plane and fell into a forested area. None of the seven crew members survived. The damaged An-72 managed to land safely in Gostomel Airport where both planes were based. The cause of the disaster was speculated to be linked to the bitter competition that the new model was about to enter in the world market of military transport aircraft. However, this version has never been supported officially. The hydraulic system of An-70 planes was redesigned after the accident.

The crew

The lost An-70 was piloted by the civilian Antonov testing team, including:

Serhiy V. Maksimov, Captain, Test Pilot 1st class
Volodymyr H. Lysenko, Second Pilot, Test Pilot 1st class
Volodymyr F. Nepochatykh, Navigator, Test Navigator 1st class
Pavlo Yu. Skotnykov, Flight Engineer, Test Flight Engineer 2nd class
Andriy I. Kostrykin, Radio Operator, Test Radio Operator 2nd class
Mykhailo M. Bereziuk, Chief Experiment Engineer 1st class
Oleksandr V. Horeltsov, Chief Experiment Engineer 1st class

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