October 2016

The Aircraft, Maritime and Railway Accident Investigation Directorate (AMRAID) is an independent national safety investigation authority conducting investigations of aviation occurrences, maritime accidents and railway accidents and incidents, and is a structural unit of the Ministry of transport, information technology and communications.

The main activities of AMRAID include:

Activity

Marine safety investigations are carried out by investigators, members of the National Board for aircraft, maritime and railway accident investigation 

Activity

In 2020, Decree № 6 of the Council of Ministers of 22 January 2020 was adopted to establish National Board for Aircraft, Maritime and Railway Accident Investigation and to adopt the Rules of procedure on the activity, structure and organization of the National Board for Aircraft, Maritime and Railway Accident Investigation

Around 9:00 a. m. on 13.10.2015, the locomotive crew of fast train No. 1621 noticed a smoke in the engine compartment of the locomotive while moving along track No. 1 from Sofia to Plovdiv in the section between Elin Pelin and Vakarel stations. The crew members took immediate action to put down the smoke and managed to extinguish the raising fire with the locomotive fire extinguishing installation and the portable fire-extinguishers available.

At around 9:47 p. m. on 09.08.2015 while implementing a shunt for attaching to the composition of the International fast train No. 493 traveling in Sofia-Plovdiv-Istanbul direction, the diesel locomotive No. 07-032 collided with the only wagon of the train at a speed of approximately 18 km per hour on the fifth track of Plovdiv station. The wagon was moved 7 meters as result of the collision.

In result of the collision, one passenger was seriously injured and another eight received light traumas.

It was inflicted a light damage to the only wagon of the train.

While entering Stryama station, the train No 30111, which was moving along Sofia - Karlovo direction composed of an electrical locomotive and two passenger cars, derailed with all the bogies of the locomotive and the first car and with the first bogie of the second car at the rail switch No 2 of the station at 09:08 hrs. on 01.02.2015.

The accident did not result in any casualties or wounded persons. Damages were caused to the RS and the infrastructure.

The movement of the trains was reestablished at 00:50 hrs. on 02.02.2015.

 At 07:05 AM on 23.12.2014, the freight train No 30561 derailed in Zimnitsa station just after starting its movement towards Burgas station. Both the electric locomotives with no. 92034 and no. 92027 of DB Schenker property that serviced the train composition derailed with all of their bogies on rail track No. 4 at switch No. 11 of the station.

No casualties occurred in result of the accident, but damages were caused to both the locomotives and to the infrastructure.