ERA16WA129 · Enstrom F28 A
Enstrom F28 A · Accident: fuel contamination while standing
From Gostilitsy to Gostilitsy
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA16WA129
- 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
- 1 · 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Enstrom F28 A
- Aircraft type
- Enstrom F28
- Category
- Helicopter
- 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
- RA-2348G
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From GostilitsyTo Gostilitsy
- 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
- Standing · engine(s) not operating
- 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
- Fuel contamination
- 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 February 24, 2016, about 1754 hours local, an Enstrom F-28A, RA-2348G, registered to the City of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, operated by a private individual, impacted terrain near Globitsy Township, Lomonosov District, Leningrad Region, Russia. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and flight plan information is unknown for the non-US, non-commercial other work use flight. The helicopter was substantially damaged, and the private pilot was fatally injured while the passenger sustained minor injuries. The flight originated about 1637, from a location about 13 nautical miles east-southeast of the accident site location.
The helicopter departed with an adequate supply of fuel but with a non-certificated helicopter pilot at the controls. After takeoff during an aerial search for a stolen vehicle while flying at or below 60 meters, the passenger later reported that the engine lost power. The helicopter subsequently crashed in a field with evidence of high vertical descent rate. Postaccident examination of the fuel system revealed the left fuel drain was inoperative, and ice was found in the left fuel tank.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Aviation Committee.
Further information can be obtained from:
Interstate Aviation Committee 22/2/1 Bolshaya Ordynka Str. Moscow, 119017, Russia Tel: (495) 953-12-44 Fax: (495) 953-35-08 E-mail: mak@mak.ru http://www.mak.ru
This report is for informational purposes and only contains information released by the Interstate Aviation Committee.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA16WA129
- Event ID
- 20160314X94921
- Case number
- ERA16WA129
- 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: d3292d2ae7aba3e13c3af0a361fa54c3ace6839740c49ddb351bcbcefdac9373; retrieved 2026-09-14T21:42:58.849Z.