Bratsk Airport fire (1992)
Yekaterinburg Aviation Enterprise Tupolev Tu-154 and Samara Aviation Enterprise Tupolev Tu-154 · Violations in the work of aerodrome services
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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 10
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Tupolev Tu-154
- Flight
- 2889
- Aircraft type
- Tupolev TU-154
- 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-85282
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Koltsovo, YekaterinburgTo Vladivostok
Aircraft 2 · Tupolev Tu-154
- Flight
- 5308
- Aircraft type
- Tupolev TU-154
- 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-85234
- Operator
- Samara Aviation Enterprise
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From VladivostokTo Kurumoch, Samara
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Physical
- Aircraft › Aircraft handling/service
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Bratsk Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The Bratsk Airport fire was an emergency (a fire) that occurred on Friday 19 June 1992 at Bratsk Airport. As a result, two Tu-154 aircraft burned and 1 person died.
Investigation and cause
Causes
As the investigation showed, the disconnection of the hose occurred because of prior actions with it by the drunk fuel and lubricants operator Berdyshev. And because the protective panels (cowlings) of the pumping unit's engine had been removed, fuel got onto the engine's exhaust manifold, which led to the ignition of the kerosene and the start of the fire. As stated by the head of the city department of security of the Russian Federation, Sergei Goremyko, the cause of the disaster was «elementary Russian irresponsibility».
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Пожар в аэропорту Братск (1992)” (revision 150406603, 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: Пожар в аэропорту Братск (1992)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150406603 · 2025-12-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q16912783
- 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 "Пожар в аэропорту Братск (1992)" (page 5023961, revision 150406603), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_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.