What the records say
- When
- 25 Jul 1971
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 52.27° N, 104.38° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 97
Aeroflot Flight 1912
1971 aviation accident in the Soviet Union
Aeroflot Flight 1912 was a scheduled domestic Aeroflot passenger flight on the Odessa-Kiev (Kyiv)-Chelyabinsk-Novosibirsk-Irkutsk-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok route that crashed on 25 July 1971, making a hard landing at Irkutsk Airport. It touched down 150 metres (490 ft) short of the runway, breaking the left wing and catching fire. Of the 126 people on board the aircraft, 29 survived.
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