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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 ...
The aircraft was a Tupolev Tu-134AK, manufactured in 1978 and registered as CCCP-65120 to the Komi Civil Aviation department of Aeroflot. At the time of the crash the aircraft had sustained 7,989 pressurization cycles and 13,988 flight hours.
Following this crash and the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 in 2010, the Russian Federal Bureau of Aviation recommended that all remaining Tu-154Ms be withdrawn from service. 1 January 2011 Kolavia Flight 348 , a Tu-154B-2 (RA-85588), erupted in flames while taxiing at Surgut International Airport for takeoff, killing three of 124 on board ...
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.
19 October 1986 - 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash: A Tupolev Tu-134 carrying President of Mozambique Samora Machel crashed into terrain while en route to Maputo, killing 34. Machel was among the dead. 1 March 1988 - Comair Flight 206 breaks up on approach to Johannesburg due to a bomb, killing all 17 on board.
The remaining bodies of those who died in the recent Washington, D.C., plane crash will likely not be immediately recovered. "For us to recover the rest of the remains," D.C. Fire and EMS Chief ...
The second prototype Tu-134 (CCCP-45076) crashed near Chkalovsky Airport during trials with the NII VVS [further explanation needed] after entering a dive following a turn, killing all eight on board. This was both the first fatal crash of a Tupolev Tu-134 and also was the first hull loss of one. [2] 7 October 1969
Recovering the bodies of two men killed earlier this month in a plane crash in a ravine cannot be performed safely, officials at Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve said. “If and when ...