| Occurrence Type: | Accident |
| Type: | Mid-air collision caused by pilot error |
| Site: | Borodianka Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine |
| Coords: | 50.744°N 29.922°W |
| Total Fatalities: | 7 |
| Total Survivors: | 5 |
| Plane1 Type: | Antonov An-70 |
| Plane1 Image: | Antonov An-70 in 1994.jpg |
| Plane1 Caption: | The aircraft involved in the accident during ground tests, the month before its first flight |
| Plane1 Operator: | Antonov Design Bureau |
| Plane1 Crew: | 7 |
| Plane1 Fatalities: | 7 |
| Plane1 Survivors: | 0 |
| Plane2 Type: | Antonov An-72 |
| Plane2 Image: | Russia_Air_Force_An-72_RA-72979_CKL_2006-2-7.png |
| Plane2 Caption: | An Antonov An-72 similar to the one involved |
| Plane2 Operator: | Antonov Design Bureau |
| Plane2 Crew: | 5 |
| Plane2 Fatalities: | 0 |
| Plane2 Survivors: | 5 |
On 10 February 1995 at 16:09 CET, the first Antonov An-70 prototype aircraft collided with an Antonov An-72 that was assisting with the An-70 test program over Borodianka Raion in Ukraine. All seven crew members on board the An-70 were killed; the An-72 was able to make a safe emergency landing at Gostomel Airport in Kyiv with no fatalities.[1]
A Ukrainian-led commission reported that the cause was human error and blamed the flight maneuvers by the crew as the major contributing factor to the crash. Leonid Berestov is quoted as saying "The careless actions of both crews in their formation flying led to a collision and crash.[2]
Several faults were observed in the three test flights that took place before the accident flight, including flight control problems during the second flight and again during the third flight, on the day preceding the crash.[2]