Aeroflot Flight 3739

When

8 Mar 1988

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

60.67° N, 29.17° E

Description

plane crash caused by hijacker

Deaths

9

Injured

19

Cause

aircraft hijacking

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1988 aircraft hijacking

Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Irkutsk to Leningrad with a stopover in Kurgan. On 8 March 1988, after the Tupolev Tu-154 operating the flight had left Kurgan, it was hijacked by the Ovechkin family, whose members sought to defect from the Soviet Union.

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