ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-104B CCCP-42495 Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO)
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Date:Thursday 25 October 1962
Time:10:33
Type:Silhouette image of generic t104 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Tupolev Tu-104B
Operator:Aeroflot, Moscow Civil Aviation Directorate
Registration: CCCP-42495
MSN: 021703
First flight: 1960
Total airframe hrs:1966
Cycles:881
Engines: 2 Mikulin AM-3M-500
Crew:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Passengers:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Total:Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) (   Russia)
Crash site elevation: 192 m (630 feet) amsl
Phase: Unknown (UNK)
Nature:Test
Departure airport:Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO/UUEE), Russia
Destination airport:Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO/UUEE), Russia
Narrative:
The Tupolev crashed during takeoff for a post-maintenance test flight. The airplane had just taken off from Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) runway 25 when it banked left. The bank angle reached 90 degrees, some 800 m after takeoff. It then continued to 150 degrees before it crashed into trees.
It appeared the rudder controls were cross-connected.

Classification:
Wrong installation of parts
Rudder issue
Loss of control

Sources:
» Soviet Transports
» airdisaster.ru


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