these schemes are excellent incorperating some of the countries aboriginal history!!

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ASN ACCIDENT DIGEST 2003-11
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Date: 26 MAY 2003
Time: 04.45
Type: Yakovlev 42D
Operator: Ukrainian-Mediterranean Airlines
Registration: UR-42352
Msn / C/n: 4520421811395
Year built: 1988
Engines: 3 Lotarev D-36
Crew: 13 fatalities / 13 on board
Passengers: 62 fatalities / 62 on board
Total: 75 fatalities / 75 on board
Location: near Macka (Turkey)
Phase: Initial Approach
Nature: Int’l Non Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Bishkek Airport (FRU)
Destination airport: Trabzon Airport (TZX)
Flightnumber: 4230
Remarks:
Crashed into a steep mountainside. The aircraft carried 62 Spanish
peacekeeping forces, heading back home from Kabul.
The METAR (weather) report at the approximate time of the accident (01.45
GMT) read: LTCG 260150Z 27010KT 230V310 9999 -SHRA SCT008 BKN030 18/17
Q1013 NOSIG RMK RWY29 27011KT=

Sources:
Reuters; Interfax
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AIRCRAFT PROFILE YAKOVLEV 42
* Last (civilian) hull-loss accident: 25 DEC 1999 Cubana CU-T1285, at
Bejuma, Venezuela- 22 fatalities
* Last fatal accident: ibid.
* Total number of hull-losses: 8 losses
* Of the 8 losses, 7 airplanes were lost as a result of an accident, 1 was
lost as a result of another occurrence (ground fire)
* 4th worst Yak-42 accident
* Survival rate for all fatal accidents: 21,4% of all occupants survived
fatal Yak-42 accidents
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AIRLINE PROFILE UKRAINIAN-MEDITERRANEAN AIRLINES
A Ukrainian charter airline operating a.o. Boeing 737-300 aircraft and a
single Yakovlev 42D
* Founded: 2000
* Website: http://www.umair-ua.com/e_index.html
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COUNTRY PROFILE TURKEY
* Last (civilian) hull-loss accident: 08 JAN 2003 THY Avro RJ.100 TC-THG –
75 fatalities
* Last fatal accident: ibid
* Total number of civil airliner hull-losses since 1945: 38 losses (24 of
which were fatal)
* 2nd worst airliner accident in Turkey
* Of the 38 losses, 37 airplanes were lost as a result of an accident, 1
was lost as a result of another occurrence (ground fire)
* Turkey is rated Category 1 (meeting ICAO standards) in FAA`s
International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)
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AIRPORT PROFILE TRABZON
* ICAO/IATA designators: LTCG / TZX
* Latitude: 40° 59′ 42.39″ N / 039° 47′ 23.02″ E
* Elevation: 104ft/ 32m
* Runway: 11/29 (2640 x 45 meters, asphalt, ILS equipped)
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2003 SO FAR
* Number of fatal hull-loss airliner accidents : 11 (safety rank since
1950: 2nd safest)
* Number of fatalities: 351 (safety rank since 1950: 21st worst)
(Coverage: fatal, multi engine civil airliner accidents)

b*llocks to that! if BA buy bmi they have no competitin domestically, and more than likely will further pull out of regional airports such as Teeside, Leeds, Jersey, Norwich etc

yea great shame. I think the Yak-42 does have a better record than most of the russian types – to b fair i dont think i’d have a problem on one of them with a reputable airline where they’re more likely to b well maintained

G-OEXC, became G-DACR with Airtours, then transferred to Denmark.
G-KMAM, became G-JANM with Airtours, then transferred to Denmark.
G-HAGT, became G-HBAP with Airtours, then transferred to Denmark.
G-SCSR, became G-JDFW with Airtours, still with MyTravel.

Doubt very severly that these will have been scrapped – most wil prob have been less than 5 years old at it’s demise. Expect with the constant interchages between the MYT fleet it’l have been transferred for that reason – poss around the same time as we got the DC-10s?

Usually Atlanta have to source a certain amount of cabin crew from the base country of the a/c – so a certain %age of the crews would have been spaniards – can check this out for you if you want…

yea certainly should be an experinace- i’ve done an enthusiasts jolly from Leeds-Leeds before in a B752 – was great!