What the records say
- When
- 20 Oct 1986
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 53.49° N, 50.19° E
- Description
- 1986 Tu-134 crash in Samara
- Deaths
- 70
- Injured
- 24
Aeroflot Flight 6502
1986 Tu-134 crash in Samara
Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Sverdlovsk to Grozny via Kuibyshev. On 20 October 1986, the Tupolev Tu-134A serving the flight crashed in Kuibyshev. Of the 94 passengers and crew on board, 70 were killed when the plane overran the runway after the pilot attempted to make an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа Ту-134 в Куйбышеве, погибли 70 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page