An-2 crash in Balashikha
Avialesookhrana Antonov An-2 · Crew errors
From Chyornoye Airport, Balashikha, (Russia) to an unrecorded destination
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
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- Unknown
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
- RA-35171
- Operator
- Avialesookhrana
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Chyornoye Airport, Balashikha, (Russia)To not recorded
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
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-2 crash in Balashikha was an aviation accident that occurred at an air show in honour of the 70th anniversary of the An-2 at Chyornoye airfield on 2 September 2017. Two people on board the aircraft were killed.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The investigation into the causes of the An-2 crash in Balashikha was conducted by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK).
The most probable cause of the crash of An-2 RA-35171 was the aircraft commander's failure to take into account the specifics of piloting the An-2 at high flight speeds (an increase in the time required to recover the aircraft from a bank due to a reduction in aileron deflection angles caused by stretching of the cable linkage as a result of a significant increase in forces in the lateral control channel at speeds of 270—300 km/h), which made it impossible to recover the aircraft from a descent while manoeuvring with large bank angles at an extremely low flight altitude.
Contributing factors were:
piloting the aircraft in modes exceeding the limitations established by the An-2 Flight Manual.
performing manoeuvres at an altitude lower than that established for a demonstration flight over the airfield.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ан-2 в Балашихе” (revision 150624839, 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 в Балашихе
- Article
- Катастрофа Ан-2 в Балашихе
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150624839 · 2025-12-13 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q120280156
- 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 в Балашихе" (page 9854418, revision 150624839), 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- 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.