Rus Flight 9633
Rus Flight 9633 was a cargo flight operated on an IL-76TD aircraft of Rus Airlines from Chkalovsky Airport to Taiyuan Wusu Airport with intermediate landings at Alykel Airport and Bratsk Airport. On July 14, 2001, the plane carrying out this flight crashed a few seconds after takeoff from Chkalovsky Airport. All 10 people on board were killed.
Aircraft
was released by the Tashkent Aviation Production Association named after V. P. Chkalov in April 1984. In the same month, it was transferred to the USSR Air Force; since December 1991 — to the Russian Air Force, board RA-76588. In 1992, it was transferred to the Ukraine Air Force, from which it was leased to the Russian airlines Atruvera and Aviacon Zitotrans. On November 4, 1999, it was put into storage at the Tupolev. On July 17, 2000, it was purchased by «Rus» airlines. It is equipped with four D-30KP-2 turbojet engines manufactured by the Rybinsk Engine-Building Plant. On the day of the disaster, he made 1831 take-off-landing cycles and flew 3523 hours.Crew
The crew of the RUR9633 flight was as follows:- The commander of the aircraft is Vyacheslav S. Boyko. A very experienced pilot, flew 12,850 hours, over 5,000 of them on the IL-76.
- The first officer is Gennady A. Butenko. Flew 230 hours on the IL-76.
- Navigator is V. N. Tutaev.
- Flight engineer is V. P. Geraskin.
- The radio operator is A. B. Rubtsov.
- On-board operator is K. F. Pavlov.
- On-board operator is S. S. Zavyalov.
- The inspector is Vyacheslav V. Kuskov, Head of the Certification Department of operators of the OMTU of the Central Regions of Air Transport of the Ministry of Transport of Russia.
Chronology of events
Previous circumstances
registration RA-76588 performed cargo flight RUR9633 from Moscow to Taiyuan with intermediate landings in Norilsk and Bratsk. The weather at Chkalovsky airfield was as follows — fog with visibility of 500–900 meters, vertical visibility of 70–80 meters, temperature +8 °C.The plane was prepared for departure and, according to the loading documents, there were 40.2 tons of cargo on board. The total take-off weight of the aircraft was 191.9 tons, but in fact the cargo was not weighed properly, and in fact the actual take-off weight of flight 9633 was approximately 204 tons, which was 14 tons higher than the maximum permissible weight. The crew knew about the overload, but decided to take off; in addition, the pilots did not perform center of gravity calculations for the aircraft and also did not draw up a scheme for the necessary placement of cargo in the aircraft. Due to the incorrect alignment of the aircraft, problems subsequently arose with the stability and control of the aircraft.
Takeoff, disaster
The flaps were set at 30°, the slats at 14°, and the stabilizers were at -5.4°. The plane began to accelerate along the runway and at a speed of 290 km/h, after a run-up of 2700 meters, the landing gear was raised and flight 9633 broke away from the runway. But immediately after takeoff, the plane began to list to the left and, to compensate for this, the FAC rejected the steering wheel to the right, forming a right roll of 7 °. The overloaded aircraft barely coped with such a load. At an altitude of 23 meters, the pilots shifted the stabilizer from -5.4 ° to -3.9 ° to dive without using the elevator to compensate, although it is strictly forbidden to control the stabilizers on takeoff. After the stabilizer was shifted, the aircraft stopped gaining altitude and began to descend. The commander pulled the steering wheel, but disaster was already inevitable.At 08:53 MSK flight RUR9633 crashed into trees at 930 meters from the end of the runway, continued to decline and at 1460 meters from the end of the runway collapsed into the forest and completely collapsed. All 10 people on board the plane were killed. A memorial was erected at the crash site.