Date: | Tuesday 8 July 1980 |
Time: | 00:39 |
Type: | Tupolev Tu-154B-2 |
Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, Kazakstan Civil Aviation Directorate |
Registration: | CCCP-85355 |
MSN: | 79A355 |
Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
Total airframe hrs: | 2438 hours |
Cycles: | 1124 flights |
Engine model: | Kuznetsov NK-8-2U |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 166 / Occupants: 166 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 5 km from Alma-Ata Airport (ALA) -
Kazakhstan
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Alma-Ata Airport (ALA/UAAA) |
Destination airport: | Rostov Airport (ROV/URRR) |
Narrative:Two minutes after takeoff from Alma-Ata, at a height of 120-150 m, the plane entered a zone of high air temperature (30-40 deg C) where the airspeed dropped because of the wind. Then the plane was caught in a downdraft and stalled. It descended nose down until it struck a farm and crashed on a wheat field near the suburbs of Alma-Ata. The Tu-154 disintegrated and caught fire, slid through a field and fell into a ravine.
The airplane operated on a flight to Rostov Airport (ROV) and Simferopol Airport (SIP).
Sources:
airdisaster.ru Soviet Transports Location
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