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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.
A peculiar fact is that one of the victims of this tragedy, Battalion commander Major Henk Fernandes, had already been appointed earlier to replace Sergeant Laurens Neede as Minister of Army and Police in 1982. The crash occurred before the inauguration of the then new twelve ministers cabinet of Suriname under Prime Minister Henry Neijhorst. [76]
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 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.
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 ...
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. [5] [6]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.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian emergency service personnel concluded their search for bodies, confirming that all 170 people on board had perished. [6] Because of the extensive crash forces and post-accident fires, rescuers believed that it would be very difficult to identify the majority of the victims at the site.