Date: | Friday 14 January 1966 |
Time: | |
Type: | Tupolev Tu-134 |
Owner/operator: | Tupolev Design Bureau |
Registration: | CCCP-45076 |
MSN: | 0001 |
Year of manufacture: | 1964 |
Engine model: | Soloviev D-20 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Chkalovsky -
Russia
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:CCCP-45076, the second Tupolev 134 prototype crashed whilst on trials with the air force scientific test institute NII VVS.
During a test flight the pilot had turned the rudder some twenty-five degrees without reducing speed. The aircraft turned sharply, entered a dive and crashed.
Sources:
Soviet Transports Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft / Andrei Kandalov, Paul Duffy , 1996 (ISBN 1560918993)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Georges Cozzika; Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB); June 1965
photo (c) Georges Cozzika; Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB); June 1965
photo (c) Georges Cozzika; Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB); June 1965
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