Дата на публикуване 30.01.2026 On June 28, 2025, at 06:30 h aircraft PZL M-18 A Dromader, registration marks LZ- DRB, with a single crew, takes off to perform a flight for AHR (fertilization of rice plantations with urea) from a aviation field to the village of Voysil, Maritsa municipality, Plovdiv region. About two minutes after the take-off, at 06:32 h local time, at an altitude of 60 meters above rice fields, the engine shuts down on its own. The pilot opens the cargo (urea) flap, turns the aircraft to the left by 20 degrees from the course to avoid landing in flooded rice fields, opens the flaps to 10 degrees and makes an emergency landing in a sunflower field. The aircraft does not reach the selected area and five meters before it hits the right main landing gear in a cement channel. As a result of the impact, the right landing gear breaks and the aircraft, after gliding 46 meters, stops in a sunflower field. The pilot leaves the aircraft independently without injuries Attachment Size FINAL_REPORT-LZ-DRB-EN-250628.pdf 6.56 MB