Regional Airlines Flight 9288
Antonov An-24RV · Controlled flight into terrain following stall
From Usinsk Airport (USK) to Varandey Airport, Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia
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
- 28 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 52
- Survivors
- 24
- 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
- Airline
Antonov An-24RV
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-24
- 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-46489
- Operator
- Regional Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 28
- Route
- From Usinsk Airport (USK)To Varandey Airport, Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia
Approximate · Estimated position: Varandey Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
On 16 March 2005, Regional Airlines Flight 9288 crashed on approach to Varandey Airport in Russia's Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, killing 28 of the 52 people on board.
Accident
Regional Airlines Flight 9288 was an Antonov An-24RV making a non-scheduled Russian domestic passenger flight on 16 March 2005 from Usinsk Airport in Komi to Varandey Airport in Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug with seven crew members and 45 passengers aboard. On approach to Varandey Airport, the crew allowed the An-24RV's speed to drop and its nose to rise until in stalled. At 13:53, the aircraft struck a hill, crashed about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the airport, and burned, killing 28 people (two crew members and 26 passengers).
The aircraft's airspeed and angle-of-attack indicators may have malfunctioned, making it difficult for the crew to monitor flight parameters accurately.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Regional Airlines Flight 9288
- Revision
- 1366711642 · 2026-07-29 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q15617473
- 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 "Regional Airlines Flight 9288" (page 45201214, revision 1366711642)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft 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.