Date: | Monday 23 April 1973 |
Time: | 15:06 |
Type: | Tupolev Tu-104B |
Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, Northern Civil Aviation Directorate |
Registration: | CCCP-42505 |
MSN: | 021903 |
Year of manufacture: | 1960 |
Total airframe hrs: | 17095 hours |
Cycles: | 10698 flights |
Engine model: | Mikulin AM-3M-500 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 57 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | near Leningrad-Shosseynaya Airport (LED) -
Russia
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Leningrad-Shosseynaya Airport (LED/ULLI) |
Destination airport: | Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO/UUEE) |
Narrative:An Aeroflot flight from Leningrad to Moscow was hijacked by a passenger who demanded to be flown to Stockholm.
The flight crew decided to return to Leningrad.
The hijacker set off an explosive device when the landing gear was lowered, killing the flight engineer and himself.
A hole was blown in the right side of the fuselage but the aircraft landed safely.
Sources:
airdisaster.ru Soviet Transports Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
Location
Images:
photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Frankfurt International Airport (FRA); 07 August 1971
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