An-24 crash in the Gulf of Finland
Polyot Aviation Antonov An-24 · Not determined
From Pulkovo, Saint Petersburg to Chertovitskoye, Voronezh
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
- 10 · 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
- Airline
Antonov An-24
- 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
- CCCP-46724
- Operator
- Polyot Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- 10
- Route
- From Pulkovo, Saint PetersburgTo Chertovitskoye, Voronezh
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
The An-24 crash in the Gulf of Finland was an aviation accident that occurred on Thursday, 26 September 1991 in the Gulf of Finland near Saint Petersburg, involving an An-24 aircraft of the airline Polyot, in which 10 people were killed.
Crash
The aircraft was to operate a cargo flight from Saint Petersburg to Voronezh delivering televisions and components. In the cockpit were the captain (PIC) Vladimir Leonidovich Prokshits, the co-pilot Aleksandr Studenikin and the flight engineer Stanislav Tinkov. There were also 7 passengers on board. After departing from Saint Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport, the An-24 began its climb when, just 5 minutes later, it fell into the waters of the Gulf of Finland 150 m from the shore. All 10 people on board were killed.
Investigation and cause
Causes
According to the results of the investigation, the engines were running right up until the impact with the water. Smoke hoods, which the crew had managed to prepare, were also found in the cockpit. However, the cause of the crash was never determined.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ан-24 в Финском заливе” (revision 150868676, 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
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Ан-24 в Финском заливе
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150868676 · 2025-12-27 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q16662362
- 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
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Ан-24 в Финском заливе" (page 4515292, revision 150868676), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): The An-24 belonged to the airline Polyot and was flying a cargo run of televisions from Saint Petersburg to Voronezh: an airline cargo flight. The article: "involving an An-24 aircraft of the airline Polyot, in which 10 people were killed"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.