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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.
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]
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of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 in 2010, the Russian Federal Bureau of Aviation recommended that all remaining Tu-154Ms be withdrawn from service. 1 January 2011 Kolavia Flight 348 , a Tu-154B-2 (RA-85588), erupted in flames while taxiing at Surgut International Airport for takeoff, killing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 ...
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.
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 A Malév Hungarian Airlines Tu-134 (HA-LBC) with 53 people on board sustained substantial damage when landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol after the right hand landing gear retracted. There were no casualties. [3] 19 November 1969
On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board.Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria; the former president of Poland-in-exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski; the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers; the ...
On July 10, 1985, the Tupolev Tu-154 operating the flight was involved in an aviation accident when it crashed due to a high-attitude stall in the Kyzylkum Desert, near the city of Uchkuduk. The crash resulted in the deaths of all of the 200 occupants onboard the flight, making it the deadliest accident in the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan and ...