Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801

When

29 Aug 1996

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

78.21° N, 16.10° E

Description

aircraft crash in Svalbard, 1996

Deaths

141

Cause

controlled flight into terrain

1996 aviation accident in Norway

Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 was an international charter flight from Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, to Svalbard Airport on Spitsbergen, in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. On 29 August 1996 at 10:22:23 CEST, a Tupolev Tu-154M operating this flight crashed into the ground in Operafjellet during the final approach to Svalbard Airport.

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