ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324905
| Date: | Friday 9 September 1994 |
| Time: | 11:07 |
| Type: |  Tupolev Tu-134AK |
| Owner/operator: | MAP Zhukovski LII |
| Registration: | RA-65760 |
| MSN: | 62187 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Samoyliha, Shatura district -
 Russia
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Calibration/Inspection |
| Departure airport: | |
The Tupolev 134 was acting as a photographic chase aircraft to a Tupolev 22M3-LL aerodynamics research aircraft ("32 Red") when both aircraft collided in flight at an altitude of 3000 m.
The Tu-134 sustained major damage to the stabilizer, lost control and crashed into the swampy forest. The Tu-22 managed to land safely back at Zhukovsky. The Tu-134 was operated by the Gromov Flight Research Institute (LII) of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (MAP).
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Scramble 185
airdisaster.ru
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; RAF Fairford (FFD); July 1993
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