Aeroflot Flight 1912
1971 aviation accident in the Soviet Union / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aeroflot Flight 1912 (Russian: Рейс 1912 Аэрофлота Reys 1912 Aeroflota) was a scheduled domestic Aeroflot passenger flight on the Odessa-Kiev (Kyiv)-Chelyabinsk-Novosibirsk-Irkutsk-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok route that crashed on 25 July 1971, making a hard landing at Irkutsk Airport. It touched down 150 metres (490 ft) short of the runway, breaking the left wing and catching fire.[1] Of the 126 people on board the aircraft, 29 survived.[2][3]
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Accident | |
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Date | 25 July 1971 |
Summary | Instrument failure and mechanical errors followed by hard landing |
Site | Irkutsk Airport 52°16′10″N 104°22′55″E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-104B |
Operator | Aeroflot |
Registration | СССР-42405 |
Flight origin | Odesa International Airport |
1st stopover | Kiev (Kyiv) |
2nd stopover | Chelyabinsk Airport |
3rd stopover | Tolmachevo Airport |
4th stopover | Irkutsk Airport |
Last stopover | Khabarovsk Novy Airport |
Destination | Knevichi Airport, Vladivostok |
Passengers | 118 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 97 |
Survivors | 29 |
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