SCAT Airlines Flight 760 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from
Kokshetau
Kokshetau (meaning ''Blueish Mountain'' in Kazakh, kz, Көкшетау, Kökşetau; ; rus, Кокшета́у, p=kokʂɛtaʊ) is a city in northern Kazakhstan and the capital of Akmola Region, which stretches along the southern shore of Lak ...
to
Almaty, Kazakhstan, operated by a
Bombardier CRJ200
The Bombardier CRJ100 and CRJ200 (previously Canadair CRJ100 and CRJ200) is a regional jet designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace between 1991 and 2006, the first of the Bombardier CRJ family.
The ''Canadair Regional Jet'' (CRJ) ...
twinjet that on 29 January 2013 crashed in thick fog near the village of
Kyzyltu, while on approach to Almaty. All 16 passengers and five crew on board were killed.
The subsequent investigation determined that the aircraft had descended abruptly after pitching nose-down, but was unable to establish the cause of the sudden manoeuvre.
Aircraft and crew
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The aircraft was a 12-year-old Bombardier CRJ200 (registration UP-CJ006), which began flying in 2000 for Cimber Air with registration as OY-RJA. Nine years later, the aircraft was transferred to Cimber Sterling. Following Ciber Sterling's bankruptcy in 2012, SCAT Airlines purchased the aircraft, where it was reregistered as UP-CJ006. The aircraft was powered by two General Electric CF34-3B1 turbofan engines.
The captain was 55-year-old Vladimir Nikolaevich Evdokimov, who had been working for SCAT airlines since 2001 and had logged 18,194 flight hours, including 1,227 hours on the CRJ200. The first officer was 43-year-old Alexander Vladimirovich Sharapov, who had been with the airline since 2006 and had 3,507 flight hours, with 132 of them on the CRJ200.
Accident
The airliner operating the flight was on
final approach
In aeronautics, the final approach (also called the final leg and final approach leg) is the last leg in an aircraft's approach to landing, when the aircraft is lined up with the runway and descending for landing.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of ...
to
Almaty International Airport
Almaty International Airport ( kk, Halyqaralyq Almaty Äuejaiy) is a major international airport northeast of Almaty, the largest city and commercial capital of Kazakhstan. It is the busiest airport in Kazakhstan, accounting for 6.42 million ...
in thick fog when it crashed short of the runway near the village of Kyzyltu at 13:13
local time
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(07:13
UTC), 14 seconds after initiating a
go-around
In aviation, a go-around is an aborted landing of an aircraft that is on final approach or has already touched down. A go-around can either be initiated by the pilot flying or requested by air traffic control for various reasons, such as an unst ...
.
All 16 passengers and five crew members aboard were killed.
Investigation
Shortly after the accident, a commission headed by
Bakytzhan Sagintayev
Bakhytjan Abdiruly Sagintayev ( kk, Бақытжан Әбдірұлы Сағынтаев, ''Baqytjan Äbdırūly Sağyntaev,'' ; born 13 October 1963) is a Kazakh politician who was a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, from 9 September 2016 until hi ...
, the first deputy prime minister of Kazakhstan, was set up by Prime Minister
Serik Akhmetov
Serik Nyghmetuly Akhmetov ( kk, Серік Нығметұлы Ахметов, translit=Serık Nyğmetūly Ahmetov, ; born 25 June 1958) was a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2012 to 2014. He served as the Minister of Defense from April to Octobe ...
to investigate the cause of the crash.
Maulen Mukashev, the deputy mayor of Almaty, visited the crash site and told reporters that the preliminary cause of the crash was bad weather. Mukashev also added: "Not a single part of the plane was left intact after it came down."
On 2 March 2015, the
Interstate Aviation Committee
The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC; russian: Межгосударственный авиационный комитет, МАК) is an executive body of the Civil Aviation and Airspace Use Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( ...
(IAC) released their final report, stating that during the
missed approach procedure, initiated due to weather conditions being below minimal, a nose-down
elevator
An elevator or lift is a cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or decks of a building, vessel, or other structure. They a ...
deflection was recorded, resulting in a steep dive and impact with the ground. The investigation was unable to determine the cause of the elevator deflection, but did not find evidence of any system malfunction or external factors.
However, the IAC's final report did state a possible scenario that could have led to the elevator deflection; Captain Evdokimov (who was the pilot flying) may have experienced a heart attack during the go-around (the final report noted that a postaccident autopsy on Evdokimov revealed that he had coronary artery disease), becoming incapacitated and collapsing onto the yoke, pushing the aircraft's nose down. The scenario also stated that First Officer Sharapov was focusing on radio communications during the upset until the enhanced ground proximity warning system activated.
See also
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2012 Kazakhstan Antonov An-72 crash
On 25 December 2012, an Antonov An-72 military transport aircraft operated by the Kazakh Armed Forces crashed about from the city of Shymkent, Kazakhstan, where the aircraft was preparing to land. All 27 people on board died in the crash.
Hist ...
References
External links
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SCAT Airlines
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