An-22 crash near Tver (1992)
Russian Air Force (8th Military Transport Aviation Regiment) Antonov An-22 · Overloading of the aircraft and crew error
From Migalovo, Tver (Russia) to Zvartnots, Yerevan (Armenia)
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
- 33 · 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-22
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-22
- 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-09303
- Onboard fatalities
- 33
- Route
- From Migalovo, Tver (Russia)To Zvartnots, Yerevan (Armenia)
Cause areas
- Organizational issues › Support/oversight/monitoring
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
- Personnel issues › Task performance
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 An-22 crash near Tver was an aviation accident that occurred on 11 November 1992 involving an An-22A "Antei" aircraft near the village of Nekrasovo, killing 33 people.
Crash
The aircraft was operating a commercial flight carrying economic goods and passengers to Yerevan. It was flown by a crew of 7, whose commander was 1st class military pilot Major N. P. Misyutin. Since there were no scales at Migalovo, the crew could only estimate the weight approximately, relying on the cargo waybills. Suspecting an overload, the flight engineer drained 10 tonnes of jet fuel, thereby leaving fuel only for the flight to Yerevan. In addition to the cargo, there were also 26 passengers on board.
On a clear, calm night the An-22 took off from the aerodrome. When 4 minutes had passed since take-off and the first turn had been completed, at a height of 200 metres and a speed of 345 km/h the crew began to retract the flaps. At that moment the aircraft began to lose height. Trying to correct the situation, the pilots pulled the control columns "towards themselves", thereby taking the machine to supercritical angles of attack. The heavy aircraft quickly lost speed and then entered a stall. Going into a dive, the An-22 struck the ground and was completely destroyed. All 33 people on board were killed.
To date this is the deadliest air disaster in the history of Tver Oblast and of An-22 "Antei" aircraft.
Investigation and cause
Causes
Weighing of the crashed aircraft's cargo — rolls of leather — showed that each of the burned rolls weighed 36 kilograms, whereas according to the documents it weighed 30 kilograms. From the decoding of the MSRP-64 it was established that the aircraft's take-off weight was 264 tonnes, that is, there was an overload of 20 tonnes. Not knowing the actual weight of the cargo, the crew began retracting the flaps too early, which is what created the emergency. In the commission's opinion, the causes of the crash were:
unsatisfactory organisation and supervision of air transport operations by the command staff of the unit, formation and higher formation;
discrepancy between the weight, nature of the cargo and number of passengers declared by the consignor and permitted for carriage and those actually loaded into the aircraft;
the crew's violation of the aircraft's operating limitations on maximum take-off weight, which led to complicated flight conditions that the crew could not cope with.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ан-22 под Тверью (1992)” (revision 151404886, 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-22 под Тверью (1992)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 151404886 · 2026-01-28 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q18398560
- 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-22 под Тверью (1992)" (page 5124782, revision 151404886), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- 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 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 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.