Date: | Tuesday 28 January 1975 |
Time: | |
Type: | Yakovlev Yak-40 |
Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Ukraine |
Registration: | CCCP-87825 |
MSN: | 9241724 |
Year of manufacture: | 1972 |
Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 17 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Zaporozhye Airport (OZH) -
Ukraine
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Zaporozhye Airport (OZH/UKDE) |
Destination airport: | Ternopil Airport (TNL/UKLT) |
Narrative:The Yak-40 passenger plane was cleared of snow prior to departure. However the wings were quickly covered with snow because of continuing snowfall. During run up the snow was blown off the right hand wing.
Immediately after lift off the airplane banked left, causing the left hand main gear to touch down again. The crew decided to abort the takeoff, but the aircraft overran the runway and the left wing collided with the building of a meteorological post, located 25 metres behind the runway threshold.
Sources:
Soviet Transports airdisaster.ru Location
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