What the records say
- When
- 16 Dec 1973
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 55.74° N, 35.79° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 51
- Injured
- 0
Aeroflot Flight 2022
1973 aviation accident in the Soviet Union
Aeroflot Flight 2022 was a scheduled Soviet domestic passenger flight between Vilnius Airport in Lithuanian SSR and Moscow–Vnukovo Airport in Russian SFSR, that crashed on 16 December 1973, killing all 51 people on board. The flight suffered a loss of control as a result of a malfunction of its elevator, causing it to crash as it made its final descent into Moscow.
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