An-2 crash near Ust-Kamenogorsk
Aeroflot (Kazakh Civil Aviation Directorate, Semipalatinsk Combined Aviation Detachment) Antonov An-2 · Crew error
From Semipalatinsk to Urdzhar
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
- 12
- 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-2
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-2
- 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-28946
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From SemipalatinskTo Urdzhar
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-2 crash near Ust-Kamenogorsk was an air crash of an An-2 aircraft of the Aeroflot airline that occurred on 12 February 1968 in East Kazakhstan Region in the vicinity of Ust-Kamenogorsk, killing 4 people.
Crash
An-2 tail number USSR-28946 of the Semipalatinsk aviation detachment of the Kazakh Civil Aviation Directorate, operated by a crew headed by the commander (PIC) G. T. Antipin, was operating a scheduled passenger flight from Semipalatinsk to Urdzhar. In total there were 2 crew members and 12 passengers on board.
During the flight the aircraft ran into a heavy snowfall, but the crew continued the visual flight despite the limited visibility. After some time the aircraft crashed into a mountain and broke up. 4 passengers were killed in the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ан-2 под Усть-Каменогорском” (revision 150406905, 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-2 под Усть-Каменогорском
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150406905 · 2025-12-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q16662412
- 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-2 под Усть-Каменогорском" (page 4589162, revision 150406905), 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): An Aeroflot An-2 of the Kazakh directorate carrying 12 passengers on a scheduled service: an airline passenger flight. The article: "was operating a scheduled passenger flight from Semipalatinsk to Urdzhar"
- 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.