It was piloted by a crew from the 246th flight detachment, consisting of aircraft commander Alexander Filippovich Chagin and co-pilot Sergey Alexandrovich Baev.

It was piloted by a crew from the 123rd flight detachment, consisting of aircraft commander Gennady Dmitrievich Borisenko and co-pilot Yuri Alexandrovich Shcheklein.

Once the weather improved, a decision was made to alter the flight path to head directly to Tavda, bypassing Turinsk and Tabory.

The dispatcher cleared aircraft 44992 to exit the airport zone at an altitude of 150 meters following Visual Flight Rules (VFR).

[1] The aircraft, flying towards each other, most likely entered a zone where rain mixed with snow was falling, with cloud cover at 150–200 meters and visibility around 2 km.

[1] According to the commission's conclusions, the accident was caused by inadequate flight safety measures on local air routes in the Tyumen and Ural Civil Aviation Directorates, the absence of the Tavda airport dispatcher from his post, and the sudden encounter of the crews with adverse weather conditions that complicated visual flight operations.