Editing Antonov An-2 (section)

==Accidents and incidents==
[[File:Niger, Agadez, airport (06), Antonov An-2 from Bask Air.jpg|thumb|Two wrecked An-2R aircraft, both from Bask Air, at Agadez Airport in Niger]]

As of 8 January 2023 there have been 802 An-2 hull-loss accidents, claiming a total of 825 lives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/types/Antonov-2/statistics|title=Antonov An-2|website=www.aviation-safety.net|access-date=9 January 2023|archive-date=15 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615224812/http://aviation-safety.net/database/types/Antonov-2/statistics|url-status=live}}</ref> One of the most recent accidents occurred around 13:30 on 14 November 2022 in the [[Everglades]], when an An-2, which had been seized by [[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]] was being transported to [[Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport]] and overturned during a forced landing caused by an engine failure. Both pilots survived.

The first known post-WWII act of suicide by pilot was with an An-2. Timofei Shovkunov stole an An-2 and flew it directly into his apartment building in [[Voroshilovgrad]] (now [[Luhansk]]) on March 27, 1972, apparently despondent after his wife having left along with his son the day before. He was the lone casualty.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rbth.com/history/330941-vladimir-serkov-timodei-shovkunov-soviet-suicide-by-plane |title=Horrific 'suicides by plane' that occurred in the USSR |author-first=Oleg |author-last=Yegorov |website=[[Russia Beyond]] |date=September 10, 2018 |access-date=November 11, 2021 |archive-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725025256/https://www.rbth.com/history/330941-vladimir-serkov-timodei-shovkunov-soviet-suicide-by-plane |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the third known post-WWII act of [[suicide by pilot]], on September 26, 1976, Russian national Vladimir Serkov made an unauthorized takeoff with an An-2 (Reg # USSR-79868) from [[Severny Airport|Novosibirsk-Severny Airport]]. He crashed it into the stairwell of an apartment complex at Stepnaya&nbsp;st., house&nbsp;43 / 1, where his ex-wife's parents lived, in an attempt to kill his ex-wife. After completing two laps around the scene, Serkov attempted to pilot the plane to the parents' apartment where his wife and two-year-old son were visiting. The aircraft pierced the stairwell between the 3rd and 4th floors, and being fueled with 800 liters of gasoline, ignited a large fire inside the stairwell that ultimately spread to damage 30 total apartments. Firefighters were on scene in five minutes, taking 57 minutes to extinguish the blaze. A four-year-old and two six-year-old children were killed at the scene from burns. Another four-year-old child died eight days later as a result of burns. In total, 11 residents were injured as a result of fire burns.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=http://airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=482|title=Чрезвычайное происшествие (таран жилого дома) с Ан-2 Западно-Сибирского УГА в г. Новосибирск (борт СССР-79868), 26 сентября 1976 года. // AirDisaster.ru - авиационные происшествия, инциденты и авиакатастрофы в СССР и России - факты, история, статистика|website=airdisaster.ru|access-date=2017-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024202222/http://www.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=482|archive-date=2017-10-24|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url = http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19760926-3|title = Criminal Occurrence Description 26 September 1976|access-date = March 27, 2015|website = [[Aviation Safety Network]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150329062728/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19760926-3|archive-date = 29 March 2015|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref> Serkov's ex-wife (and her parents) and his toddler son were not injured in the incident.<ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto"/>