1989 Aeroflot accident at Mirny Station
Avia 14M · Fire
From Mirny Station, Antarctica 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
- 3 · 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
Avia 14M
- Aircraft type
- Avia 14
- 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
- CCCP-52066
- Operator
- Aeroflot
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Mirny Station, AntarcticaTo not recorded
Cause areas
- Not determined › Not determined
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
In the Aeroflot accident at Mirny Station, an Aeroflot aircraft of the type Avia 14M was destroyed on 26 January 1989 before it was able to take off from Mirny Station. All three occupants of the aircraft were killed.
Accident sequence
The aircraft's departure was scheduled for midnight. While the aircraft was being refuelled for departure at 20:25, a fire suddenly broke out. When the fire brigade arrived at the aircraft after 10 minutes, it had already burned out. Only the right wing and part of the left wing of the aircraft remained. The three crew members were unable to leave the aircraft in time and perished in the flames.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The cause of the fire could never be determined.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall der Aeroflot bei der Mirny-Station 1989” (revision 251249549, 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 der Aeroflot bei der Mirny-Station 1989
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 251249549 · 2024-12-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q117084680
- 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 der Aeroflot bei der Mirny-Station 1989" (page 12594259, revision 251249549), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- 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.