2012 Antonov An-2 accident near Serov
Avia Zov Antonov An-2R · The 2012 Antonov An-2 accident near Serov occurred on 11 June 2012
From Serov Airfield, Russia to an unrecorded destination
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
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- Unknown
Antonov An-2R
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-2
- 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-40312
- Operator
- Avia Zov
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From Serov Airfield, RussiaTo not recorded
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2012 Antonov An-2 accident near Serov occurred on 11 June 2012. On this day an Antonov An-2R that had taken off on an unauthorised flight disappeared near the Russian town of Serov, and with it 13 people. The aircraft remained missing for more than 10 months until hunters discovered the wreck with the skeletonised bodies at a remote location.
Discovery of the aircraft and accident investigation
On 5 May 2013 hunters chanced upon the wreck of the aircraft with the skeletonised bodies of 13 people in a swampy wooded area 10 kilometres southwest of Serov. The crash site was 20 degrees to the right of the takeoff heading, on a heading of 210 degrees. The commission found that the flight had lasted 5 to 7 minutes. The captain was said to have flown over a forest below the minimum safe altitude and was probably intoxicated at the time. He was said to have overlooked a tall, dead tree, with which the lower left wing collided at a height of 21 metres. As a result of the impact, the wing was said to have then collapsed. At the time of the collision the flight path was said to have been about 180 degrees, which suggested that the pilot had previously flown several turns at low altitude. After the collision with the first tree, the aircraft was said to have assumed a left bank angle and broken off trees with a diameter of up to 40 cm. The Antonov was then said to have crashed to the ground 60 metres from the point of the first impact, first with the left wing, then with the engine. The aircraft was then said to have reared up and come to rest inverted at an angle to the ground between the trees. The engine, which was running at the time of the collision, was said to have been driven one metre deep into the soft forest floor.
The discovery of the remains of the dead in a skeletonised state almost 11 months after their death made it impossible to determine by forensic methods whether the persons had been under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of death, let alone to what degree.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Antonow An-2 bei Serow 2012” (revision 247137473, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer Antonow An-2 bei Serow 2012
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 247137473 · 2024-07-27 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q4205182
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Antonow An-2 bei Serow 2012" (page 11438239, revision 247137473), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.