Angara Airlines Flight 2311
2025 aviation accident in Russia
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Angara Airlines Flight 2311 was a scheduled domestic flight from Ignatyevo Airport to Tynda Airport, operated by Angara Airlines. On 24 July 2025, an Antonov An-24 operating that flight crashed in Amur Oblast, Russia during its second landing attempt in poor visibility. The crashed site is about 16 kilometres (10 miles) from Tynda airport into a forest near Tynda in eastern Russia.[1][2] All 42 passengers and 6 crew members on board died.[3][4][5]
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- Near Tynda, Amur Oblast, Russia
- 55.20°N 124.57°E
Wreckage of the aircraft | |
| Accident | |
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| Date | 24 July 2025 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error |
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| Aircraft | |
 RA-47315, the aircraft involved in the accident, seen in 2022 with a previous livery | |
| Aircraft type | Antonov An-24RV |
| Operator | Angara Airlines |
| IATA flight No. | 2G2311 |
| ICAO flight No. | AGU2311 |
| Call sign | SARMA 2311 |
| Registration | RA-47315 |
| Flight origin | Ignatyevo Airport, Blagoveshchensk, Russia |
| Destination | Tynda Airport, Tynda, Russia |
| Occupants | 48 |
| Passengers | 42 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 48 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Background
Aircraft
The aircraft involved, manufactured on 29 January 1976, was a 49-year-old Antonov An-24RV registered as RA-47315.[6][7] It first flew for Aeroflot before the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991. The aircraft also flew for Nizhny Novgorod Airlines, Kampuchea Airlines, KurskAvia, Izhavia, Aeroservis and RusLine.[8] At the time of the crash, Angara Airlines operated 10 Antonov An-24 aircraft, all built between 1972 and 1976.[3] Rosaviatsia said that the aircraft had been involved in four incidents since 2018, and officials said it had passed a recent technical inspection.[9] The aircraft's airworthiness certificate was renewed in 2021 with a validity lasting until 2036.[1][10]
Passengers and crew
There were forty-two passengers and six crew members on board the aircraft.[11][12] The passengers included five children.[3] Five of the passengers were employees of the Russian Railways company.[13] An oncologist was also on board.[14] One of the passengers was a Chinese national.[15]
The captain was 61-year-old Vyacheslav Logvinov, a graduate of the Talgat Bigeldinov Military Institute of the Air Defence Forces. He had previously worked for IrAero before joining Angara Airlines. Logvinov accumulated nearly 6,000 hours on An-24s and An-26s, from a total of 11,200 hours. The first officer was 37-year-old Kirill Plaksin, who logged over 1,900 hours on An-24s.[16] The flight engineer was 30-year-old Vladimir Vokhmintsev.[17] There was one flight attendant and two aircraft mechanics on board.[18][19]
Accident
The plane landed at Ignatyevo Airport at 08:20 to refuel and let new passengers board before taking off again at 11:20. The plane was originally scheduled to depart at 09:10 but there was a 1-hour and 35 minute delay due to poor weather.[20][dubious – discuss] According to Interfax, the flight route included stops at Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk and Tynda. At the time of the crash, the flight was nearing its final destination of Tynda, a city in Amur Oblast, when it disappeared from radar. The aircraft had made a missed final approach in the poor visibility around Tynda airport and had to make a second attempt to land, during which it failed to report at a checkpoint.[21][22] Contact with the aircraft was lost at 13:00 VLAT (UTC+10:00).[23] No distress calls were received from the flight crew.[24]
At the time of the accident, the winds were blowing northeast at 7 km/h (4 kn), visibility was unlimited (more than 10 km or 6 mi) with light rain, scattered cumulonimbus clouds at 210 metres (690 ft), and other broken clouds at 600 metres (2,000 ft). The temperature was 17 °C (63 °F) with a QNH pressure of 1002 hPa.[5][failed verification]
The burning wreckage of the aircraft was found at 17:30 by a Rosaviatsiya rescue helicopter,[15][20] 16 kilometres (10 miles) from Tynda.[1][25] Russian media reported the wreckage was located on a mountainside with no survivors.[4] There were no roads to the crash site so a rescue team numbering more than 100 people used heavy machinery to cut a path.[12] Rescuers reached the crash site at 23:00.[20] Ground access to the site was hampered by the remote and swampy terrain.[9]
Aftermath
Three days of mourning were declared in Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai for the victims of the crash.[9][26] Transport minister Andrey Nikitin said that ₽5 million (US$63,000) each were to be given as compensation to the families of the victims.[24] The leaders of Armenia, India, Belarus, China, Egypt and Kazakhstan sent their condolences to Russian president Vladimir Putin over the crash.[27][28]
On 27 October 2025, the Russian aviation regulator Rosaviatsia ordered the revocation of Angara Airlines' operating license effective November.[29]
Investigation
An investigation was opened into the cause of the crash by the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Interstate Aviation Committee. The aircraft's flight recorders were recovered a day after the crash.[24] Investigators were able to recover data from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), but the flight data recorder (FDR) was destroyed by the post-crash fire.[7] Preliminary analysis of the CVR did not reveal any problems with any of the aircraft's systems.[30] Russian investigators have indicated that an altimeter pressure-reference error contributed to the crash. The Federal Air Transport Agency classified the accident as a controlled flight into terrain.[16] On 9 February 2026, the IAC released their final report, which concluded that the accident had been caused by an incorrect altimeter setting.[31] Accident report is also available in English language.[32]
See also
- 2025 in aviation
- List of accidents and incidents involving the Antonov An-24
- List of unrecovered and unusable flight recorders
- Similar accidents and incidents:
- 1961 President Airlines Douglas DC-6 crash, a DC-6 that crashed due to faulty instrument and poor weather; 83 killed, 1961
- 2012 Kazakhstan Antonov An-72 crash, an Antonov An-72 that crashed due to a faulty altimeter and poor visibility; 27 killed, 2012