ERA15WA260 · Quest Aircraft Company LLC KODIAC 100
Apelsin Quest Aircraft Company LLC KODIAC 100 · Accident: loss of engine power (total) during initial climb
From Pskov to Ryazan
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA15WA260
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Quest Aircraft Company LLC KODIAC 100
- Aircraft type
- Quest KODIAC 100
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N642RM
- Operator
- Apelsin
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From PskovTo Ryazan
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of engine power (total)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On July 6, 2015, about 1312 universal coordinated time, Quest Kodiak 100, U.S. registration N642RM, was substantially damaged by collision with terrain during a forced landing following a loss of engine power after takeoff from Pskov Airport, Pskov, Russia. The Russian certificated pilot and passenger were not injured. The flight was destined for Ryazan, Russia.According to investigators, the airplane experienced a total loss of engine power immediately after takeoff, and the pilot performed the forced landing 500 meters beyond the departure end of the runway. During the forced landing, the nose and right main landing gear separated and wings, fuselage, and tail sections sustained substantial damage.
This accident investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Aviation Committee of Russia. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
The Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Fax: +7(495) 953-57-42 +7(495) 953-96-59, Russian & English, E-mail issaeva@mak.ru
This report is for informational purposes only, and contains only information released by or obtained for the Government of Russia.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA15WA260
- Event ID
- 20150707X14422
- Case number
- ERA15WA260
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 5cd5f50bb60010e190676cbae2aa456de8c80bc1019c105c2c605ef6002cb6dd; retrieved 2026-09-16T02:30:00.734Z.