Tuzla, Constanța air crash
"Aurel Vlaicu" Air Force Application School, Boboc Unknown · : crash
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
- 12 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 2
- 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
- 2
- 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
Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 12
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Tuzla, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Tuzla, Constanța air crash is an event that took place on 5 July 2010 involving an Antonov An-2 aircraft. The aircraft belonged to the Romanian Air Force. The accident resulted in 12 dead and 2 injured.
The accident
On 5 July 2010, an An-2 aircraft belonging to the "Aurel Vlaicu" Air Force Application School in Boboc, which was making a training flight for military parachutists, had problems on take-off and after a flight of 2 km crashed, with 12 of the 14 people on board losing their lives. Of these, four servicemen were part of the Romanian Air Force and eight of the Romanian Naval Forces (divers).
Among those who died were the commander of the "Aurel Vlaicu" Air Force Application School, Commander Nicolae Jianu, Lieutenant Commander Cătălin Vicențiu Antoche and Capt. Lavinia Guită, both from the same school,
Lt. Liviu Antim, four military foremen, three corporals and a private.
The two survivors, one being the pilot of the aircraft himself, Capt. Daniel Bălșanu, also from the "Aurel Vlaicu" Air Force Application School, and the other, military foreman class IV Marius Nazare
were admitted to the Military Hospital in Bucharest, being however out of danger.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Romanian Wikipedia article “Accidentul aviatic de la Tuzla, Constanța” (revision 17759662, 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
Romanian Wikipedia article: Accidentul aviatic de la Tuzla, Constanța
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 17759662 · 2026-05-25 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q892914
- 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
- ro Wikipedia article "Accidentul aviatic de la Tuzla, Constanța" (page 764567, revision 17759662), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- centre of the town the Wikipedia infobox site names (GeoNames, CC BY 4.0)
- 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 named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Romanian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.