What the records say
- When
- 18 May 1973
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 51.03° N, 113.31° E
- Description
- plane crash caused by hijacker with bomb
- Deaths
- 81
Aeroflot Flight 109
1973 plane crash caused by hijacker with bomb
Aeroflot Flight 109 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow to Chita with stopovers in Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, and Irkutsk. On the final leg of the route on 18 May 1973 a terrorist hijacked the aircraft, demanding to be flown to China; the terrorist's bomb detonated in flight after he was shot by the air marshal. The aircraft broke-up at altitude, killing all 81 on board.
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