ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328640
| Date: | Saturday 17 March 1979 |
| Time: | 19:44 |
| Type: |  Tupolev Tu-104B |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Ukraine |
| Registration: | CCCP-42444 |
| MSN: | 921001 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Engine model: | Mikulin AM-3M-500 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 58 / Occupants: 119 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO) -
 Russia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO/UUWW) |
| Odessa-Central Airport (ODS/UKOO) |
A Tupolev 104B passenger jet, registered CCCP-42444, was damaged beyond repair in a CFIT accident near Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO), Russia. There were 113 passengers and six crew members on board. The airplane operated on a flight from Vnukovo to Odessa-Central Airport (ODS)
Shortly after takeoff at 19:30 a (false) no. 1 engine fire warning forced the crew to return to Moscow-Vnukovo. In poor visibility conditions the plane descended below the glide slope. The wing struck a pylon of a power line, contacted the top of a small hill and got airborne again. At a height of 5-10 m the Tu-104 crossed the Moscow-Kiev highway and crashed onto a frozen ploughed field. Having lost wings and the cockpit, the fuselage slid on the ground and stopped 200 m from the highway and 1920 m from the place of initial ground contact. The takeoff weight exceeded allowable on 10,7 tones and the flying experience of the pilot-in-command on Tu-104 planes was just 32 hours.
Sources:
airdisaster.ru
Soviet Transports
Dmitriy Yertsov
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Düsseldorf Airport (DUS); May 1974
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