Russian Rosaviatsiya has banned Angara Airlines from servicing its own aircraft and helicopters

• Rosaviatsiya has revoked the certificate of the Irkutsk airline Angara for aircraft maintenance.
• The certificate allowed Angara to perform work on operational and periodic technical maintenance of aircraft such as An-12/24/26/148 aircraft, Mi-8 helicopters.
• Now Angara will be able to use only the services of third-party certified specialists for this.
• Following an inspection by the airline, Rosaviatsiya found violations in its work as a maintenance organization.
• Documents were issued without the actual work being performed. In addition, the necessary tools and equipment were not used.
• Angara agreed “with these and other facts.” The airline was unable to provide materials that would prove the absence of risks in the future.

Russian Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsiya has revoked the certificate of the Irkutsk airline Angara, which allowed its mechanics to perform maintenance on aircraft and their components.

According to Artem Korenyako, agency’s representative,

"The document allowed specialists from the Irkutsk carrier to perform work on operational and periodic technical maintenance of aircraft: for example, An-12/24/26/148 aircraft, Mi-8 helicopters. Now the airline can only use the services of third-party certified organizations for technical maintenance of its fleet," he explained.

It's to be noted that on July 24, 2025, Angara's An-24 crashed near the city of Tynda in the Amur Region, 15 km from the airport.

The plane was flying the Khabarovsk-Blagoveshchensk-Tynda route. There were 48 people on board (including six crew members, among the passengers there were five children), all of them died.

After the disaster, Rostransnadzor had inspected Angara and found numerous violations  - the problems mainly concerned the technical maintenance of the aircraft. Eight airliners were suspended from service.

• Angara Airlines has been operating since 2000. It operates flights from Irkutsk to the northern cities of the Angara region, and serves domestic air routes in Buryatia and other Far Eastern regions.
• On July 24, 2025, an An-24 Angara aircraft crashed near the city of Tynda in the Amur Region, 15 km from the airport.
• There were 48 people on board (including six crew members, among the passengers there were five children), all of them died .
• The company's activities are being inspected by the transport prosecutor's office, Rosaviatsia and Rostransnadzor. Based on the results of the inspections, a decision will be made on the further operation of Angara.

At the same time, Angara was unable to provide a full list of materials proving the absence of risks to prevent similar cases in the future . “Therefore, the certificate was cancelled,” Rosaviatsia explained.

The inspectors established that the maintenance of the Angara aircraft fleet was carried out without observing the technology and airworthiness directives, and was carried out by personnel who did not have the appropriate qualification training.

According to Angara documents, a one-time inspection of the control unit was performed on two An-24RV aircraft (numbers RA-46662 and RA-46697). However, the inspectors established that the special tool required for such an inspection was not issued.

According to Russian agency TASS, the crashed plane was technically sound, but it had  four aviation incidents, including rolling off the taxiway and the failure of one of the radio sets.

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has released the first data from the transcript after receiving the plane's black boxes.

"No failures of the aircraft systems were previously recorded before the plane collided with the ground," the department said.

The Investigative Committee named malfunction and human factor among the versions of the An-24 crash being worked on. As part of the investigation, security officials came to the Angara office.

The airline operates flights in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, and its fleet includes An-24, An-26-100 and Mi-8 helicopters.