2009 Uytash Airport collision
Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Ilyushin Il-76MD and Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Ilyushin Il-76MD · Ground collision due to Pilot error on RA-76827
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 38
- Survivors
- 34
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 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
- Government
Aircraft 1 · Ilyushin Il-76MD
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-76
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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-76825
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Occupants
- 7
- Survivors
- 3
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 2
- Route
- From not recordedTo Uytash Airport
Aircraft 2 · Ilyushin Il-76MD
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-76
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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-76827
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Occupants
- 31
- Survivors
- 31
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Not stated
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2009 Makhachkala Il-76 collision occurred on 15 January 2009 near 18:00 UTC, when two Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) collided at Uytash Airport serving the city of Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia.
Accident
On the evening of January 15, 2009, four Il-76 military transport aircraft of the 675th Special Aviation Regiment of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs took off from Chkalovsky air base with military personnel and equipment on board, bound for Makhachkala Airport. Their task was to unload the personnel and military equipment and return to their home Nizhny Novgorod Airport.
The first aircraft completed the task successfully. The second aircraft (tail number RA-76825) landed at the airport, unloaded and taxied to a runway access point, where it awaited the landing of the third aircraft (tail number RA-76827). The third aircraft, after landing in difficult weather conditions with the minimum established weather (fog, runway visibility 800 meters, vertical visibility 60 meters), touched down, moving however 15–20 meters to the left of the runway. Before that, the Il-76 still on the ground crossed the taxiway end line but did not report its position to Air traffic control (ATC). As a result, the landing aircraft hit the aircraft waiting for take-off with its wing in the cockpit.
As a result of the collision, the cockpit of the Il-76MD (RA-76825) on the ground was destroyed, of the seven crew members of the aircraft, four were killed.(Commander/Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Dubankov, Flight Engineer Vladimir Knyazevič, Flight Radio Operator Alexander Alekhine, Flight Engineer Anatoly Tupitsyn) and two were injured and were later taken to a hospital in the city of Kaspiysk. One crew member who had been located in a different part of the aircraft didn’t sustain severe injury. None of the 6 crew members and 25 passengers on board the landing aircraft were injured. The pilot of the fourth Il-76, after assessing the situation, directed the aircraft to an alternative airport.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 2009 Uytash Airport collision
- Revision
- 1359332043 · 2026-06-14 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q4055777
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2009 Uytash Airport collision" (page 21111625, revision 1359332043)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as a government agency in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.