AN-26 - lost contact in Russia
 

Contact lost with an AN26 in Kamchatka Region. Flight was from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the town of Palana. Some, but not all sources, reporting it has crashed in sea.
https://www.rt.com/russia/528454-pla...ast-kamchatka/

22 passengers and six crew on board.

Russian pilot says AN26 has one only problem - tail icing.

AP saying "The plane was on approach for landing when contact was lost about 10 kilometers (six miles) away from Palana’s airport." Source: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-ne...ec549d16b63f4f

According to nrk.no (I can't post URL's it seems) parts of the plane has been found, and authorities already say there are no survivors

https://www.nrk.no/urix/passasjerfly...and-1.15565950


EDIT: with the chrome browser right click to translate to English.

Not often I would cite The Sun, but still...

"Passenger plane crashes into cliff killing all 28 on board while landing in ‘poor conditions’"

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/155034...ppeared-radar/Quick Reply

No IFR procedures. Has to be high risk.

According to the report of a similar accident SEP 2012 there is a NDB approach for rwy 11.

Crash: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky AN28 near Palana on Sep 12th 2012, missing aircraft impacted a slope

Aviation Herald now has picture and map of 2021 accident - hit top of cliff, some of aircraft then fell into ocean.

Crash: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky AN26 near Palana on Jul 6th 2021, missing aircraft impacted edge of coast

SIDs, STARs, NDB (11), and runway aligned RNP approaches available to both ends.

Avoiding any speculation on causes from the 2012 AN-28 crash, but noted it is the same carrier, route and even flight number.

A further clearer photo here: https://japantoday.com/category/worl...#39;s-far-east


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....47e1ccd2bc.jpg

Is this type of aircraft fitted with EGPWS ? Was it working ?

Does this operator have other EGPWS equipped aircraft ?

Does the national authority require EGPWS to be fitted ?

Did Russia not change its altimetry procedures late last year/early this year. If so, would this apparent CFIT be a potential result of QNH/QFE, Metres/ feet or HPa/mmHg confusion?

gearlever

Jepp doesn't carry any procedures for the airport as of this date, at least not for UHPL.

Russian AIP does.

Crash: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky AN26 near Palana on Jul 6th 2021, missing aircraft impacted edge of coast

gearlever

Must be for domestic use only.

That’s a horrible approach.

Thanks for the link Gearlever. One can see that these recent maps ( April 2021) heights are in meters , and QNH/QFE in mmHg , so made for Russian aircraft. . In one comments below someone refers to an interview of the controller which wanted the crew to perform an approach over land due weather /visibility , but it was refused by the crew.
I doubt they had EGPWS on an old AN26 ( ex military) , but I know most old Russians aircraft do have a basic GPWS, someone in Russia can perhaps confirm or infirm that in this case.