Aeroflot Flight 8381

Aeroflot Flight 8381

Accident summary
Date	3 May 1985
Summary	Mid-air collision involving ATC errors
Site	near Zolochiv, Ukraine
Total fatalities	94
Total survivors	0
First aircraft
Type	Tupolev Tu-134
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-65856
Flight origin	Tallinn Airport, Estonia
Stopover	Lviv, Ukraine
Destination	Chişinău, Moldova
Passengers	73
Crew	6
Survivors	0
Second aircraft
Type	Antonov An-26
Operator	Soviet Air Force
Registration	SSSR-26492 (101 red)
Passengers	9
Crew	6
Survivors	0

A Tu-134 similar to the one that crashed

Aeroflot Flight 8381 was the designation on a scheduled flight of a two-engined Tupolev Tu-134 which departed Tallinn Airport in Estonia, at 10:38 am on 3 May 1985, for Chişinău in Moldova, making a stopover at Lviv, Ukraine. While descending to Lviv in overcast weather, it collided at 12:13 with a Soviet Air Force Antonov An-26 (callsign SSSR-26492, Russian: СССР-26492) which had just taken off from Lviv. The collision occurred at an altitude of 13,000 feet (flight level 130). Both aircraft lost their right wings and tails, went out of control and crashed about one or two minutes later near the village of Zolochiv, Ukraine. There were no survivors.

Civil and military air traffic controllers mislocated both aircraft involved, leading to violations of air traffic control rules. An air controller found guilty of causing the disaster was found dead two weeks after his arrest.^{[citation needed]}

An Antonov An-26 similar to the one that crashed

Among the victims of the disaster were a graphics artist Alexander Aksinin, the young Estonian table-tennis player Alari Lindmäe (born 15 September 1967) and two generals of the Soviet Army. The captain of the Aeroflot aircraft, Nikolai Dmitrijev (born 18 October 1931), was a Hero of Socialist Labor and one of the Soviet Union's most decorated civil airline pilots.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network
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