Aeroflot flight 4225
| Aeroflot flight 4225 | |
|---|---|
 Aeroflot aircraft of the same construction |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Loss of control |
| place | 5 km away from Almaty Airport , Kazakhstan |
| date | July 8, 1980 |
| Fatalities | 166 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-154-B-2 |
| operator | Aeroflot |
| Mark | СССР-85355 |
| Departure airport | Almaty airport |
| Destination airport | Rostov-on-Don Airport |
| Passengers | 156 |
| crew | 10 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On July 8, 1980, a Tupolev Tu-154 crashed on the inner-Soviet scheduled flight Aeroflot flight 4225 shortly after taking off from Almaty Airport . There were no survivors among the 166 inmates. So far (June 2020) it is the worst plane crash in Kazakhstan .
plane
The aircraft was a one year old Tu-154-B-2 with the aircraft registration number, equipped СССР-85355with three Kuznetsov NK-8-2 engines and had completed 2,438 flight hours.
course
The plane took off from Almaty Airport with the destination Rostov-on-Don Airport and within two minutes gained a height between 120 and 150 m . Then, however, it suddenly slowed down, was pushed down, and eventually stalled . The aircraft sank with its nose down and hit a wheat field near a suburb of Almaty at 00:39 a.m. local time . The Tu-154 broke on impact, caught fire , skidded across a field and eventually fell into a ravine . All 166 inmates lost their lives.
root cause
The aircraft lost speed because it got into a layer of air with a temperature of 30 to 40 ° C and was exposed there to shear winds. Then it was pushed down by the downburst and stalled there.
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swell
Coordinates: 43 ° 16 ′ 59.9 ″ N , 76 ° 49 ′ 37.6 ″ E