VP-BKO, the aircraft involved in the accident, seen 3 months before the crash
Accident
Date
14 September 2008 (2008-09-14)
Summary
Crashed during approach due to loss of control in flight, spatial disorientation, lack of training, and pilot error aggravated by intoxication
Site
Near Perm International Airport, Perm, Russia 57°58.255′N56°12.632′E / 57.970917°N 56.210533°E / 57.970917; 56.210533
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 737-505
Operator
Aeroflot-Nord
IATA flight No.
SU821
ICAO flight No.
AFL821
Call sign
AEROFLOT 821
Registration
VP-BKO
Flight origin
Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia
Destination
Perm International Airport, Perm, Russia
Occupants
88
Passengers
82
Crew
6
Fatalities
88
Survivors
0
Aeroflot Flight 821 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Aeroflot-Nord in a service agreement with Aeroflot and as its subsidiary. On 14 September 2008, the aircraft operating the flight crashed on approach to Perm International Airport at 5:10 local time (UTC+06). All 82 passengers and six crew members were killed. Among the passengers who were killed was Russian Colonel General Gennady Troshev, an adviser to the President of Russia who had been the commander of the North Caucasus Military District (including Chechnya) during the Second Chechen War.[1][2][3] A section of the Trans-Siberian Railway was damaged by the crash. Flight 821 is the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737-500, surpassing the 1993 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 733, and was the second-deadliest aviation incident in 2008, behind Spanair Flight 5022.[4]
The primary cause of the crash was that both pilots had lost spatial orientation due to their inexperience with the Western type of attitude indicator on the aircraft. Lack of adequate rest, poor crew resource management, and alcohol consumption by the captain also contributed to the accident.
This air disaster led to Aeroflot-Nord rebranding as Nordavia, effective on 1 December 2009, and later to Smartavia in 2019.
^"Russia: Aeroflot plane crash kills 88". Associated Press. 14 September 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via The Guardian.
^"Westerners among 88 killed in Russian air disaster". The Telegraph. 14 September 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^"88 killed: Engine failure cited in deadly Russian plane crash". Die Welt. 15 September 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via www.welt.de.
^Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-505 VP-BKO Perm Airport (PEE)". aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
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