Dniprodzerzhynsk plane collision
| Dniprodzerzhynsk plane collision | |
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 An Aeroflot Tu-134, similar to the crashed aircraft |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Airplane collision in the air |
| place | near Dniprodzerzhynsk (today Kamjanske ), Ukrainian SSR coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 35 ″ N , 34 ° 40 ′ 33 ″ E 
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| date | August 11, 1979 |
| Fatalities | 178 |
| 1. Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-134A |
| operator | Aeroflot ( Moldova ) |
| Mark | СССР-65816 |
| Departure airport |
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| Destination airport |
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| Passengers | 88 |
| crew | 6th |
| Survivors | 0 |
| 2. Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-134AK |
| operator |
Aeroflot
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| Mark | СССР-65735 |
| Departure airport |
Donetsk Airport , Ukrainian SSR
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| Destination airport |
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| Passengers | 77 |
| crew | 7th |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The aircraft collision of Dniprodzerzhynsk was a collision of two Tupolev Tu-134 machines of Aeroflot on August 11, 1979. Both aircraft crashed and all the passengers were killed. The cause was an error by the air traffic controller .
Planes
The first, five-year-old Tu-134A with registration number CCCP-65816 was on flight SU7628 en route from Voronezh to Chișinău . Among the inmates were also 17 football players from the then Soviet first division club Paxtakor Tashkent . The other eight-year-old Tupolev Tu-134AK aircraft with registration number CCCP-65735 was on flight SU7880 on its way from Donetsk to Minsk .
the accident
The Tu-134A and Tu-134AK were both on a direct collision course at an altitude of 8,400 meters . The air traffic controller noticed this and instructed the Tu-134 AK to climb to 9000 meters. The air traffic controller then received an unclear radio message, which he interpreted as the answer from the Tu-134AK; but the radio message came from another aircraft and the Tu-134AK stayed at its altitude. At 1:35 p.m. local time (10:35 UTC ), the two Tu-134s collided in the clouds over Dniprodzerzhynsk . The right wing of the Tu-134AK cut into the front of the Tu-134A's fuselage, killing the occupants in this area and causing explosive decompression . The right engine of the Tu-134AK was damaged by debris sucked in. Both aircraft turned about its vertical axis (the Tu-134A clockwise and the Tu-134AK counterclockwise) and collided again with the left engine of the Tu-134A, the fin met the Tu-134AK and a part of the fin and thus also the entire horizontal stabilizer of the Tu-134AK demolished. The second collision broke the Tu-134A into several parts. The pilots of the Tu-134AK attempted an emergency landing , but at an altitude of 4,300 meters they lost control of the plane, which went into a dive and crashed. All 178 occupants of both aircraft died.
See also
Aircraft accidents that have affected entire sports teams in the past include:
- Superga plane crash (1949)
- British European Airways Flight 609 (1958)
- Sabena Flight 548 (1961)
- Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya Flight 571 (1972)
- Air accident involving the Zambian Air Force DHC-5 Buffalo AF-319 (1993)
- YAK service flight 9633 (2011)
- LaMia Flight 2933 (2016)
Web links
- Report on the accident in Russian
- Here is a small excerpt of the radio communication between the Tu-134AK and the pilot
- Here is all of the radio traffic
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- Newspaper article about the accident
- Aircraft Accident data and report СССР-65735 (Tu-134AK) in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Aircraft Accident data and report СССР-65816 (Tu-134A) in the Aviation Safety Network (English)