Red Wings Flight 9268

Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268

RA-64047, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured during the flight before crashing.
Accident summary
Date	December 29, 2012
Summary	Overran runway on landing, struck elevated highway and broke up
Site	Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia 55°35′2″N 37°15′18″E / 55.58389°N 37.25500°E / 55.58389; 37.25500Coordinates: 55°35′2″N 37°15′18″E / 55.58389°N 37.25500°E / 55.58389; 37.25500
Passengers	0
Crew	8
Fatalities	5
Injuries (non-fatal)	3
Survivors	3
Aircraft type	Tupolev Tu-204-100B
Operator	Red Wings Airlines
Registration	RA-64047
Flight origin	Pardubice Airport, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Destination	Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia

Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268 was a repositioning flight that, on December 29, 2012 at 16:35 local time (12:35 GMT), crashed after overrunning Runway 19 at Moscow Vnukovo International Airport following a flight from Pardubice Airport, Czech Republic. The aircraft, a Tupolev Tu-204, broke up after the overrun, killing 5 of its crew of 8 (there were no passengers). The accident marked the second hull-loss of a Tupolev Tu-204, as well as the type's first (and so far only) fatal accident since its introduction in 1989.

According to Vnukovo airport authorities, there were eight crew members onboard and no passengers. There were five fatalities. The aircraft overran the runway, splitting into three sections upon running into a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway, with parts of it scattering onto the road; included were parts of the aircraft's interior, seat assemblies and two of the aircraft's wheels hitting the underside of the runway's approach lighting system scaffolding and impacting an automobile. The cockpit section of the aircraft became detached from the rest of the airframe.

It had been snowing prior to the accident and there was a significant cross wind with gusts of up to 29 knots. The aircraft, a Tupolev Tu-204-100B (reg RA-64047, c/n 1450743164047, s/n 047) was built in 2008. The airframe had accumulated 8,672 flight hours in 2,482 cycles, while the captain had more than 14,500 hours of total flying experience, of which more than 3,000 hours were on incident type. The accident was the first hull loss for Red Wings Airlines since its founding in 1999.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (МВД) reported that the captain, first officer, flight engineer and one flight attendant were killed on impact. Of the remaining four crew members, a female subsequently died of her injuries while the other three were in critical condition.

Those killed in the crash were Capt. Gennady Shmelev, 58 (Геннадий Шмелев), First Officer Evgeniy Astashenkov, 52 (Евгений Асташенков), Flight Engineer Igor Fisenko, 54 (Игорь Фисенко) and Flight Attendant Evgeniya Zhigalina, 25 (Евгения Жигалина). A second Flight Attendant, Tatiana Penkina, 31 (Татьяна Пенкина), died in a Moscow hospital the day after the accident.