Aeroflot flight 902
| Aeroflot flight 902 | |
|---|---|
 An Aeroflot Tu-104 |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type |
Official: Loss of control after a cabin fire. Unofficial: Accidental shooting |
| place | Voznesenka, 28 km east of Krasnoyarsk |
| date | June 30, 1962 |
| Fatalities | 84 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-104A |
| operator | Aeroflot (Far East) |
| Mark | CCCP-42370 |
| Departure airport | Khabarovsk airport |
| 1. Stopover | Belaja airfield |
| 2. Stopover | Omsk airport |
| Destination airport | Moscow Vnukovo Airport |
| Passengers | 76 |
| crew | 8th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On June 30, 1962, a Tupolev Tu-104 crashed on Aeroflot Flight 902 .
course
The Tu-104 took off from Belaya Airfield at 3:53 p.m. Moscow time and rose to an altitude of 9,000 meters. At 16:50, the pilots reported that they were about 50 km from Krasnoyarsk . At around 4:53 p.m. the copilot of the Tu-104 radioed : Красноярск, сорок два… триста семьдесят, следите за мной, смотрите за мной, смотрите за мной , in the background, you can hear me, 42, ... you can hear me ... (Krasnojars) ... strange noise. After that there was no more contact. The Tu-104 crashed in a forest east of Voznesenka, 28 km east of Krasnoyarsk. The debris from the plane was spread out within a radius of 200 meters from the crash crater. All 84 inmates died. It was the worst airplane accident in the USSR up to that point.
Accident investigation
It was reconstructed that the Tu-104 began a descent at around 4:51 p.m. At an altitude of 7,000 meters, there was a stall and the aircraft went into a tailspin from which it could be intercepted in 4,000 meters. Shortly after the copilot's radio message, the Tu-104, lying on its back, buried itself in the ground at a low forward speed at an angle of 40 °. During the autopsy of the dead, it was found that some passengers had been severely burned before the crash.
Official version
Presumably because of a fire in the cabin, the pilots began an emergency descent . They lost their bearings in the clouds, and the flow stalled, followed by a spin. Because of the low cloud base of 800 meters, they could not save the aircraft in time.
Unofficial version
A 20 cm wide hole is said to have been in a piece of debris that was located on the left between the cockpit and the wings. The cabin lining and parts of the controls are said to have been damaged by a detonation. Presumably the Tu-104 was hit by a missile on the left side of the fuselage. The missile is said to have been fired in Magansk by an air defense unit on the basis of a training exercise .
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- Description of the accident on airdisaster.ru
- Aircraft accident data and report CCCP-42370 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
Coordinates: 56 ° 1 ′ 45.8 ″ N , 93 ° 4 ′ 3 ″ E