RESOLUTION OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of May 11, 2022 No. 23

About approval of Aviation rules of the organization of investigation of the aviation events which happened to the state aircrafts of the Republic of Belarus, their classification and accounting

Based on the paragraph of the fifth of part one of Article 6, No. 1617 "About implementation of the Air code of the Republic of Belarus" the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus DECIDES: parts two of article 81 of the Air code of the Republic of Belarus and Item 1 of the resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of December 4, 2006

1. Approve Aviation rules of the organization of investigation of the aviation events which happened to the state aircrafts of the Republic of Belarus of their classification and accounting (are applied).

2. Declare invalid the resolution of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus of December 31, 2010 No. 54 "About approval of Aviation rules of the organization of investigation of the aviation events which happened to the state aircrafts of the Republic of Belarus, their classification and accounting".

3. This resolution becomes effective after its official publication.

Minister lieutenant general

V. G. Hrenin

It is approved Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus

State military-industrial committee of the Republic of Belarus

State boundary committee of the Republic of Belarus

Republican state public association "Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Fleet of the Republic of Belarus"

Approved by the Resolution of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus of May 11, 2022 No. 23

Aviation rules of the organization of investigation of the aviation events which happened to the state aircrafts of the Republic of Belarus, their classification and accounting

Section I. General provisions

Chapter 1. Basic provisions

1. In these Aviation rules are determined procedure for the organization of investigation of the aviation events (further – the EXPERT) which happened to the state aircrafts of the Republic of Belarus (further – AF), their classification and procedure for their accounting.

2. For the purposes of these Aviation rules terms in the values established in the Air code of the Republic of Belarus and also the following terms and their determinations are applied:

accident – aviation incident without the human victims;

aviation system – set jointly acting in the environment of the aircraft equipment, crews of AF, forces and controls and ensuring the flights joint structurally and functionally for the benefit of accomplishment of flights;

air unit (the aviation organization) – the military unit or the organization which is under supervision of republican state body, other state body and organization, republican state public association "Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Fleet of the Republic of Belarus" (further if other is not determined, – to the HORN), and having legally the state aircraft and directly using it for implementation of military, border, Customs Service, law-enforcement activities, the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations of natural and technogenic nature, the solution of tasks in the field of mobilization preparation, and also for the solution of other national objectives connected using this aircraft, determined by the President of the Republic of Belarus;

aviation division – aviation link, aviation group, aviation squadron or airmobile group, flight-test division of the organization manufacturer or repair organization, and also other regular primary aviation structure of air unit (the aviation organization);

aviation incident (further – AP) – the EXPERT, connected with flight operation of AF which led to loss of life, and (or) loss of this AF. AF is considered lost when: there was final fracture of AF; location of AF (its fragments) is not established and official searches are stopped; evacuation of AF from the place of its emergency landing is impossible or inexpedient irrespective of the received injuries; recovery of AF is impossible or economically inexpedient;

aviation incident (further – AI) – the EXPERT, connected with flight operation of AF which could create or created threat of integrity of AF and (or) life of persons which are on its board, but AP did not end;

the state of the place of event – the state in the territory of which took place of AP;

the state of registration of AF – the state in which registers it is registered by AF;

the state – the operator of AF – the state in the territory of which there is the main place of activities as a part of the organization in which are operated by AF, or if the organization in which are operated by AF does not take such place of activities (the permanent place of stay of this organization);

the interested states – the state of the place of event, the state of registration of AF, the state – the operator of AF, the state having jurisdiction concerning the organization responsible for final assembly of AF, design of the AF type, and also the state which citizens died or sustained bodily harms in case of AP;

engineering air service (further – IAS) – service of governing body of aircraft, air unit or division which officials (which) perform actions for content of the aircraft equipment, means of its operation and repair in permanent readiness for use, IAS of flights, ensuring technical safety of flights (further – BZP) and also will organize and carry out technical training of aviation personnel;

technical structure (further – ITS) – aviation personnel of IAS;

catastrophic crash – AP with the human victims and (or) loss without message of passengers or crew members of AF;

the commission on investigation the EXPERT (further – the commission) – specially appointed group of specialists, representatives to perform investigation the EXPERT;

flight operation – for AF, – the process of their operation covering the period from the beginning of carrying out from aircrew of pre-flight inspection of AF and till the moment when all persons which were onboard AF for the purpose of flight left AF, except for persons which are carrying out postflight preparation; for the unmanned aerial vehicle (further – BLA), – the period from the beginning of carrying out from the operator of BLA of pre-flight inspection of BLA and until landing of BLA with use of parachute method or switching off of the engine (engines) when landing BLA in an aircraft way (in a helicopter way);

land incident – the event which is not connected with flight operation of AF, took place in holding time, storages or transportations of AF in case of whom there was its damage or loss. The damages eliminated by means of replacement of aggregates and which are not requiring use of the technologies which are not provided in management (instruction) for technical operation of AF do not belong to land incidents;

dangerous factor (further – OF) – the potential reason (factor) which manifestation brought (brings or can bring) to origin and (or) development of special situation;

body of BZP – service BZP or specially authorized (representatives) official (official) person (persons) on who, (whom) obligations on accomplishment of functions of service BZP are assigned;

governing body of flights – groups of management of flights (further – GRP), calculations of Items on duty of targeting of aircraft and duty shift of the 570th center of air traffic management, and also the calculations of other control centers intended for direct transfer to crew of AF (the operator of BLA) of flight conditions, teams and information;

governing bodies of aircraft – governing bodies and structural divisions to the HORN which forces perform the organization of activities for purpose and operational management by the state aircraft;

special situation – the situation which arose in the course of flight operation of AF as a result of manifestation (impact) of OF;

the reasons (factors) the EXPERT – actions, failure to act, circumstances, conditions or their combination which brought to the EXPERT;

serious AI (further – SAI) – AI connected with emergence of the conditions which are characterized by substantial increase of probability of AP which prevention requires accomplishment from crew members of AF (the operator of BLA) and (or) the official of the governing body of flights performing management and flight control of AF, the difficult and (or) emergency actions which are not applied in the conditions of normal flight of AF;

SAI with damage of AF (further – SAIP) – AI, in case of which recovery of AF who sustained damage, perhaps and economically reasonablly. The damages eliminated by means of replacement of aggregates and which are not requiring use of the technologies which are not provided in management (instruction) for technical operation of AF do not belong to serious aviation incidents with damage of AF;

the adviser to the authorized representative – the person having the corresponding qualification and giving help to the authorized representative in conducting investigation of AP;

structural division – the structural division of Armed Forces intended for implementation of functions of the Ministry of Defence as specially authorized body in the field of defense on state regulation of activities for purpose of the state aircraft;

bodily harm from the death (only for the purpose of uniformity of statistical data) – bodily harm as a result of which within 30 days from the moment of incident there came death;

BZP authorized body of the state aircraft – The Ministry of Defence authorized in regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Belarus to make investigations of AP with AF, to consider and classify the EXPERT with AF, and also to exercise interdepartmental control of activities of aviation personnel of the state aircraft in the part concerning BZP;

the authorized representative – person to whom the head of the BZP authorized body of the state aircraft charged to be involved in the investigation the EXPERT made by other state;

the human victims – persons which were onboard AF whose death followed as a result of AP, including the bodily harms which sustained as a result of this incident from the death;

emergency – the event which is not relating to AP connected with operation of AF in case of whom there came one of the following effects:

loss of AF or death of the people who were on its board during fighting departure, as a result of act of terrorism, stealing or attempt of stealing of AF;

death of the people who were onboard AF as a result of adverse effects of external environment after its emergency landing out of airfield;

loss of AF or death of the people who were on the earth as a result of AP with other AF;

loss of AF or death of the people who were on its board in case of accomplishment of special tasks in zones of emergency state;

operation of AF – the stage of lifecycle of AF from the moment of its acceptance in air unit (the aviation organization) from the organization manufacturer or the repair organization which is set of commissioning, reduction in the established degree of readiness for proper use, maintenance in the established degree of readiness for this use, proper uses, storages and transportations. Test flights (flights) which are carried out by forces of flight-test divisions of the repair organizations on AF which underwent assembly and adjustment after completion (at the final stage) repair or upgrade belong to operation.

3. Everyone the EXPERT in the state aircraft is subject to obligatory investigation by forces of the commission.

4. Investigation the EXPERT is made for the purpose of establishment of its reasons and taking measures to their prevention in subsequent. Establishment of someone's fault and responsibility is not the investigation purpose the EXPERT.

5. In case of AP with foreign AF in the territory of the Republic of Belarus from the BZP authorized body of the state aircraft without delay information on AP in accordance with the established procedure goes to the BZP authorized bodies of the state aircraft of the state of registration of AF, the state – the operator of AF, and if necessary – to the BZP authorized bodies of the state aircraft of other interested states according to international treaties.

6. When carrying out by forces of law enforcement agencies of investigative actions upon the EXPERT the commission chairman coordinates with them work of the commission.

Chapter 2. Classification of aviation events

7. The EXPERT are subdivided into AP, AI, with participation of AF: emergencies, land incidents.

8. AP depending on their effects are subdivided into catastrophic crashes and accidents.

9. AI depending on degree of their danger and effects are subdivided into AI, SAI and SAIP.

10. The following cases belong to AI with piloted by AF:

10.1. SAI:

collision of AF;

collision of AF with land (surface) obstacle;

hit in AF of weapons of destruction (splinters);

unauthorized or extra polygon use of aviation weapons of destruction;

defeat of AF category of atmospheric electricity;

hit of AF in the dangerous phenomena of weather;

weeds AF with the configuration which is not corresponding to flight task;

conclusion of AF to the dumping mode, loss of controllability of AF;

exceeding of operational restrictions of AF with emergence of residual deformations of design;

loss at crew members of AF of space or visual orientation;

emergency landing of AF out of airfield (the platform of purpose), except for landings to the airfield which is picked up from air in case of meeting with the dangerous phenomena of weather or in case of orientation loss;

violation of loading rates of AF, transportation of the prohibited loads, shift of loads;

sharp decrease or loss of efficiency of the pilot (crew member);

the fire onboard AF;

engine failure, and also the switching off of the engine in flight which is not provided in task (including switching off owing to emergence of false signal of its refusal);

the failures of the system of management of AF referred to particular cases of flight and which led to difficulty of piloting of AF;

spontaneous release of brake parachute on take-off or on prelanding planning;

destruction (emergency opening, failure) of lamp (shutter, the movable blister, the illuminator) AF in flight;

separation or spontaneous opening of doors, hatches, ladders, cowls or fairing;

not release of one or more racks of the chassis from the main system. Spontaneous (wrong) release or cleaning of the chassis;

flight on icy AF (in the presence of ice on the surfaces protected by anti-icing system). Flight in the conditions of ice accretion on AF, not equipped with anti-icing system;

violations of safe flight altitude, statutory rules of vertical, longitudinal and side echeloning;

violation of the established weather minimum in case of take off and landing;

accomplishment of landings to the platforms which are picked up from air which do not meet the requirements established is aware fighting (flight, educational and flight) of preparation of sort of aircraft;

accomplishment of the landings which are not provided in task. Landing outside the boundaries of landing strip (airfield), except for gliders, rolling-out out of its limits in case of take-off or landing;

AF gas station substandard fuels and lubricants, liquids and gases;

acceptance and release of AF from unprepared landing strips;

the failure of the main and duplicative means of communication and radio engineering ensuring flights which influenced accomplishment of flight task;

other events which led to emergence of difficult situation or to damnification to health of crew members (passengers) of AF.

10.2. AI:

take-off termination;

attempt of accomplishment of take-off (landing) of AF with the configuration which is not conforming to the requirements stated in management on flight operation of AF;

landing with the overload exceeding the most admissible for AF of this type. Landing strip contact with tail heel;

hit in wake trace on take-off or on decrease glide path on landing, and also in the cases which are followed by essential change of parameters of flight;

leaving on the second circle from height, less admissible in management on flight operation of AF;

landing with the fuel remaining balance which is not providing accomplishment of repeated landing approach;

not release or break of brake parachute on run;

collision of AF with birds;

exceeding of operational restrictions of AF;

violation of the set minimum safe parameters of fighting procedure for AF;

the rapprochement of AF with other AF which is not provided in task excluding them separate observation from the available radar stations;

violation of restrictions of use of aviation weapons of destruction;

hit of AF in defeat zone (scattering of splinters) of the applied aviation weapons of destruction;

formation of cracks on power elements of glider, windshields in flight;

crew departure without preflight medical control. Disease state of crew members in case of flight accomplishment;

accomplishment of flight without the special equipment of crew members corresponding to flight conditions;

exceeding of regulations of raid for crew in flight change, violation of the mode of work and regulations of rest before flights;

crew departure on flight with not completed documentation;

non-compliance with conditions of accomplishment of flight task;

fuel leak in fire-dangerous places of AF;

unauthorized (without identification) accomplishment of the attack of air target;

change of the set flight altitude without the permission of (notification) from body of servicing of air traffic;

submission of the executive command to the commander of crew in case of wrong determination of the place of AF;

issue to crew of the wrong data on the place of AF;

issue to crew of the wrong data on conditions of take-off, landing approach and landing;

temporary loss of management at crew of AF;

hit of crew in conditions in which for flight his members are not prepared;

task performance for the crew which is not corresponding to level of training of his members;

exceeding of normative terms of transition to reserve means of communication and radio engineering ensuring flights in case of refusal of the main or on autonomous sources of power supply in case of electricity outage;

the termination of issue of GRP or to calculations of command posts (further – KP) information on air situation in responsibility zone;

total or partial loss of radio communication with crew in flight;

issue from the operator of radar station of height with the mistake exceeding tactical specifications;

giving on flights of unprepared means of land servicing of common application;

dazzle of the pilot (crew member) of AF light of headlights of road or special transport on rulezhny paths and near landing strip at night;

accomplishment of flights from landing strip (platform) which is not meeting the established requirements;

untimely development and finishing storm warning;

release in flight of AF with incomplete maintenance;

the failures of the aircraft equipment which led to the termination (failure to carry out) of flight task;

other events under the organization, management, accomplishment, or ensuring flights which led to violations of the requirements stated in regulatory legal acts by rules of carrying out flights and preparation for them and could create or created threat of integrity of AF and life of persons which are on its board.

11. The following cases belong to AI with BLA:

11.1. SAI with BLA:

collision of BLA;

collision of BLA with land (surface) obstacle;

hit in BLA of weapons of destruction (splinters);

unauthorized or extra polygon use of aviation weapons of destruction;

defeat of BLA category of atmospheric electricity;

hit of BLA in the dangerous phenomena of weather;

weeds BLA with the configuration which is not corresponding to flight task;

BLA conclusion to the dumping mode, loss of controllability of BLA;

exceeding of operational restrictions of BLA with emergence of residual deformations of design;

emergency landing of BLA out of airfield (the platform of purpose), except for landings to the airfield which is picked up from air in case of meeting with the dangerous phenomena of weather or in case of orientation loss;

violation of loading rates of BLA, transportation of the prohibited loads, shift of loads;

the fire onboard BLA;

spontaneous release of brake parachute on take-off or on prelanding planning;

not release of one or more racks of the chassis from the main system. Spontaneous (wrong) release or cleaning of the chassis;

flight on icy BLA (in the presence of ice on the surfaces protected by anti-icing system). Flight in the conditions of ice accretion on BLA which are not equipped with anti-icing system;

violations of safe flight altitude, statutory rules of vertical, longitudinal and side echeloning;

violation of the established weather minimum in case of take off and landing;

accomplishment of the landings which are not provided in task. Landing outside the boundaries of landing strip (airfield), except for gliders, rolling-out out of its limits in case of take-off or landing;

BLA gas station substandard fuel and lubricants, liquids and gases;

acceptance and release of BLA from unprepared landing strips;

the failure of the main and duplicative means of communication and radio engineering ensuring flights which influenced accomplishment of flight task;

separation or spontaneous detachment of the BLA elements;

not release of landing parachute which led to damage of BLA;

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