CAAC Antonov An-24 accident near Lanzhou
Antonov An-24RV · The CAAC Antonov An-24 accident near Lanzhou occurred on 15 December 1986
From Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport, People's Republic of China to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)
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
- 6 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 38
- 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
- 38
- 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
- B-3413
- Operator
- Caac
- Onboard fatalities
- 6
- Route
- From Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport, People's Republic of ChinaTo Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
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
The CAAC Antonov An-24 accident near Lanzhou occurred on 15 December 1986. On that day, an Antonov An-24RW of the airline CAAC, which was on a domestic scheduled flight from Lanzhou to Chengdu with a scheduled stopover in Xi'an, crashed on the first leg of the flight due to engine icing. Of the 44 people on board, six passengers were killed in the accident.
Accident sequence
A few minutes after takeoff from Lanzhou Airport, the crew of the Antonov flew through a zone of bad weather and icing conditions. The right engine failed and the pilots feathered its propeller. The pilots requested clearance from air traffic control in Lanzhou to turn back for an emergency landing. After receiving it, they initiated the descent. During this, control over the aircraft was partially lost. About 30 minutes after takeoff the aircraft crashed into a field located only a few kilometres from the airport. The aircraft was destroyed. Six passengers died, while the remaining 38 occupants were injured.
Investigation and cause
Cause
It was determined that the right engine had failed due to icing.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Antonow An-24 der CAAC bei Lanzhou” (revision 239497202, 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-24 der CAAC bei Lanzhou
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 239497202 · 2023-11-26 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q123404687
- 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-24 der CAAC bei Lanzhou" (page 12863333, revision 239497202), 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
- "scheduled flight" in the article's 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.