The pilots of an Antonov An-12BK presumably had not slept and were overly fatigued when they flew into fog during a nighttime approach to Lviv (Ukraine) Aerodrome and the airplane hit the ground, the National Bureau of Air Accidents Investigation of Ukraine (NBAAI) says.
Five crewmembers on the PJSC Airline–Ukraine Air Alliance cargo flight were killed in the Oct. 4, 2019, accident, and the other three people on board — two aviation technicians and an off-duty flight engineer — were seriously injured. The airplane was destroyed.
In its final report on the accident, the NBAAI said the probable cause was “the crew’s failure to perform the flight in the instrument conditions due to the probable physical excessive fatigue, which led to an unconscious descent of the aircraft below the glide path and ground impact.”
On Oct. 3, 2019, the day before the accident, the flight crew flew the accident airplane from Toronto to Toulouse, France, landing in Toulo…
