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On 19 October 1986, a Tupolev Tu-134 jetliner with a Soviet crew carrying President Samora Machel and 43 others from Mbala, Zambia to the Mozambican capital Maputo crashed at Mbuzini, South Africa. Nine passengers and one crew member survived the crash, but President Machel and 33 others died, including several ministers and senior officials of ...
Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A from Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) to Grozny via Kuibyshev (now Samara), which crashed in Kuibyshev on 20 October 1986.
23 May 1971 Aviogenex Flight 130, a Tu-134A (YU-AHZ), landed hard and crashed at Rijeka Airport in bad weather, killing 78 of 83 on board. [6] [7]16 September 1971 Malév Hungarian Airlines Flight 110, a Tu-134 (HA-LBD), crashed near Boryspil International Airport in fog following two aborted approaches after generator failure forced the crew to switch to batteries, killing all 49 on board.
It crashed near Uchkuduk while en route its second leg, when the crew mistook in-flight vibrations due to low airspeed with engine surges and reduced power, leading to an even lower airspeed that eventually stalled the aircraft. This crash is the worst ever accident involving the Tu-154 and Aeroflot's deadliest accident. [130] 15 July 1985 ...
Aeroflot Flight 892 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Minsk to East Berlin, which crashed on 12 December 1986 due to pilot error, killing seventy-two of the eighty-two passengers and crew on board. [1]
Crews working at the site of the deadliest aviation disaster in a generation have recovered all 67 victims of the collision between two aircraft over the Potomac River in Washington, DC, officials ...
A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river (REUTERS)
Large sections of the plane plunged into the icy Potomac River following the crash, where it was later found in three pieces. Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles/U S Coast Guard/UPI/Shutterstock