Babie Doły air crash
Brygada Lotnictwa Marynarki Wojennej Antonov An-28 · The crash of the An-28 Bryza-2RF aircraft took place on 31 March 2009, at about 16:45 at the Gdynia Babie Doły military airfield
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
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- Military
Antonov An-28
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-28
- 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
- 1007
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The crash of the An-28 Bryza-2RF aircraft took place on 31 March 2009, at about 16:45 at the Gdynia Babie Doły military airfield. The aircraft, belonging to the Naval Aviation Brigade, was performing a training flight.
The entire four-person crew was killed in the accident: the trainee pilot, the crew commander, the flight technician and the check officer.
Course of the flight
The An-28 Bryza-2RF aircraft was performing a training flight. The pilot was practising an emergency landing approach with one engine shut down. The crew shut down the left engine and entered the circuit at a height of 300 m (instead of the planned 500 m). During the landing approach the flaps were extended to 25° and then to the 40° position. A force arose turning the aircraft to the left, which the pilot did not counteract. The instructor also did not take counteraction. The aircraft clipped trees, which led to it rolling into an inverted position and striking the ground.
The aircraft fell to the ground within the grounds of Gdynia Babie Doły airfield.
Investigation and cause
Causes
At the turn of June and July 2009 a public report on the commission's work was published. The commission and its Chairman, Col. Zbigniew Drozdowski, stated that the cause of the crash was improper action by the crew during the landing approach with one engine inoperative. The incorrect configuration of the aircraft's flaps, extended by the instructor to full deflection, and improper power adjustment of the operating engine caused a loss of approach direction and – after a collision with terrain obstacles – an asymmetric stall of the aircraft with uncontrolled bank and impact with the ground in an inverted position.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Polish Wikipedia article “Katastrofa lotnicza w Babich Dołach” (revision 80236812, 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
Polish Wikipedia article: Katastrofa lotnicza w Babich Dołach
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 80236812 · 2026-07-22 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q11737199
- 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
- pl Wikipedia article "Katastrofa lotnicza w Babich Dołach" (page 1670989, revision 80236812), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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 is an armed force according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Polish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.