Air disaster

Aeroflot Flight 7841

1 Feb 1985 · 53.88° N, 28.20° E

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When
1 Feb 1985
Kind
Air disaster
Coordinates
53.88° N, 28.20° E
Description
plane crash
Deaths
58
Injured
22

Aeroflot Flight 7841

Soviet passenger flight involved in a 1985 aviation accident

Aeroflot Flight 7841 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Minsk in Soviet Byelorussia, to Leningrad, operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A on 1 February 1985, which suffered a double engine failure immediately after takeoff. The pilots were unable to return to Minsk, and instead made a forced landing into a forest, killing 58 of the 80 people on board, while 22 others survived the accident.

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