KAPO Aviakompania (Kazan International) has had its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) revoked by Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) for gross violations of safety, training and maintenance protocols.
The bureau says it conducted a surprise inspection of the company's facilities and personnel following an accident in which one of KAPO Aviakompania's An-26Bs - RA-26082 (cn 11705) - sustained substantial damage during take-off from Magadan's runway 10 on January 3. According to local media reports, the aircraft suffered an engine failure during its takeoff roll causing it to skid off the runway. It then came to a halt on a heavily snowed-over section adjacent to the main track with its right hand landing-gear collapsed. None of the eight occupants were injured.
The Russian Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) faulted the captain for not aborting the takeoff roll prior to the crash while blaming the crew for having failed to adequately carry out mandatory pre-departure checks as prescribed in the type's flight manual.
Rosaviatsia said its own detailed investigation showed the airline's day-to-day operations and flight-safety oversight to be inadequate thereby requiring the revocation of KAPO Aviakompania's AOC with immediate effect.
KAPO (Kazanskoe Aviatsionnoe Proizvodstvennoe Ob'yedinenie), owned by the Kazan Aircraft Production Association, operates four Il-62s and two Tu-214s on both corporate as well as commercial charter flights.
