Air accident near Kanasch
| Air accident near Kanasch | |
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 Aeroflot aircraft of the same construction |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Loss of control due to stall |
| place | 27 km west of Kanasch , Chuvash ASSR |
| date | 17th October 1958 |
| Fatalities | 80 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-104 A |
| operator | Aeroflot |
| Mark | CCCP-42362 |
| Departure airport | Omsk airport |
| Destination airport | Moscow Vnukovo Airport |
| Passengers | 71 |
| crew | 9 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On October 17, 1958, a Tupolev Tu-104A crashed on a flight from Omsk to Moscow near Kanasch . All 80 inmates died.
plane
The plane was a 2½-month-old Tupolev Tu-104 A with the air vehicle registration CCCP-42362, with two Mikulin AM-3 -Turbojet- engines equipped and a total of 465 flight hours had passed.
course
The plane landed from Beijing coming on the airport Omsk . From there it took off for Moscow and rose to a cruising altitude of 10,000 meters. Because of the fog in Moscow , the plane could not land there and the pilots changed course to Sverdlovsk . On the way there, the aircraft got into a strong updraft and rose to 12,000 meters, which was above the service ceiling of 11,500 meters. The speed dropped, stalled , the plane got out of control and went into an almost vertical dive . At an altitude of 2,000 meters, the pilots managed to flatten the dive a little, but could not prevent the crash. At 9:30 p.m. local time, the aircraft struck southwest of Kanasch directly next to a railway line with a vertical inclination of 80 °, first with the left wing , exploded and caught fire . All 71 passengers, including delegates from China and North Korea, and the 9 crew members died.
consequences
After this accident, the maximum altitude of the Tu-104 was only allowed to be 9,000 meters.
Similar accidents
Almost 2 months earlier , a Tu-104 crashed after being grabbed by an updraft.
swell
- technical data of the Tu-104, Flugzeuginfo.net
- Accident report CCCP-42362, Aviation Safety Network
- Accident report on airdisaster.ru (in Russian)
Web links
Coordinates: 55 ° 16 ′ 48 ″ N , 47 ° 1 ′ 48 ″ E