DA-40 RA-02654 18.06.2015

     The accident involving DA-40 RA-02654 aircraft owned by Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation" occurred at Buguruslan Severny Airport (Orenburg Region, RF) on June 18, 2015. According to the available information, the pilot and trainee were killed, the aircraft was destroyed.
     The Interstate Aviation Committee has formed the Investigation team of this accident in accordance with the Russian Aviation Legislation. The investigation team has started its work.
    

The Interstate Aviation Committee Investigation team has completed the investigation of the accident involving DA 40 NG RA-02654 aircraft of Buguruslan Flight School of Civil Aviation - Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education of Saint-Petersburg State University branch occurred at Buguruslan Glavny Airfield on June 18, 2015. 

Most probably, the accident involving DA 40 NG RA-02664 aircraft was caused by aircraft stall entry at the altitude not sufficient for recovery performing engine failure training not specified by flight assignment.

Contributing factors could be:

- light alcohol intoxication of the pilot-instructor;

- lack of monitoring system for procedure and sequence of training programmes implementation;

- training procedure irregularities in Buguruslan Flight School of Civil Aviation consisting in the lack of distinct regulation of operations and actions during engine failure training operations; 

- non-compliance of "Single personal training programme for personnel training" developed by Flight-Engineering Center of Saint-Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation with it aims and objectives;

- irregularities in methodological and professional training of PIC-instructor resulted in afterthought / incorrect measures on aircraft normal mode recovery.