The territorial department of the state service of mining supervision and industrial safety in Odesa region has finished and published the results of an unscheduled broad check of the observation of the requirements of Ukrainian industrial safety and labor protection law by South Airlines.

The territorial department told Interfax-Ukraine that the check was conducted from February 18 to February 28, 2013 following an emergency landing at Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport on February 13 by the airline's An-24 plane. A total of 102 infringements were revealed and eight ban orders on operating equipment and carrying out certain types of work were issued. Five officials of the airlines, including the director, were disciplined.

Among the infringements established is the fact that South Airlines operated aircraft and equipment of increased danger and fulfilled extra hazardous work without a permit from the state service of mining supervision and industrial safety. In addition, the airline does not have the required measuring devices and tools for servicing aircraft, or the aircraft were not checked in the terms set.

In addition, the airline does not have a service for monitoring the safety of the exploitation of its buildings and facilities. Their state is not checked. The building of the metal dock for servicing engines has collapsed wall sections, vertical and slanting cracks in walls, expansion of walls by one third of their width and other damage.

As reported, an An-24 aircraft of South Airlines on a flight from Odesa to Donetsk made an emergency landing at Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport at 1824 on February 13. During the landing the aircraft hit a weather tower, the right wing grazed the ground, and it overturned and its fuselage broke.

A total of 52 people were on board the aircraft, including eight crewmembers. Five people were killed.

It was a charter flight, and all the passengers were football fans heading for Donetsk to watch Shakhtar Donetsk play Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League round of 16.

A criminal case has been opened into the crash on charges of violating the air safety rules that resulted in the death of people. Ukraine's Donetsk Region Prosecutor's Officer is in charge of the inquiry.

The State Aviation Service has suspended the work of South Airlines.

The An-24 aircraft was produced in 1973.

South Airlines was established in 1999. Its fleet consists of four types of aircraft: Yak-42D, Saab 340B, Embraer-500 and An-24RV aircraft.