Aeroflot Flight 902
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Accident | |
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Date | 30 June 1962 |
Summary | Stall, loss of control (official) / Accidental shootdown (unofficial) |
Site | Beryozovsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Soviet Union |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-104A |
Operator | Aeroflot/Far East |
Registration | СССР-42370 |
Flight origin | Khabarovsk Airport |
1st stopover | Omsk Airport |
2nd stopover | Irkutsk Airport |
Destination | Vnukovo Airport |
Occupants | 84 |
Passengers | 76 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 84 |
Survivors | 0 |
Aeroflot Flight 902 was a flight on scheduled domestic service from Khabarovsk to Moscow with intermediate stops at Irkutsk and Omsk in the Soviet Union. The flight was operated by a Tu-104A aircraft. On 30 June 1962, with 62 adult passengers, 14 children and 8 crew members, the flight departed Irkutsk on schedule, and made a scheduled report 50 kilometers from Krasnoyarsk. A few minutes later, an agitated voice later identified as that of the second pilot made an incoherent emergency transmission with a background of an unusual noise, and repeated attempts to contact the flight failed.[citation needed] Its wreckage was found 28 kilometers east of Krasnoyarsk airport in flat terrain with small areas of forest. Investigators subsequently determined that the plane had impacted the ground upside-down at an angle of 40 degrees. There were no survivors.[1]
Cause of disaster
The official cause of the disaster was reported at the time to be a stall and loss of spatial orientation in clouds, or a loss of control due to a fire in the passenger cabin or other unknown reasons.[citation needed] However, damage found on the port side of the fuselage (specifically, an entry hole with signs of fire damage on the inside) was consistent with damage that could be caused by an anti-aircraft missile, and there was unofficial confirmation that an anti-aircraft missile had gone astray during an air defense exercise in the area.[1]
Unofficial sources indicated that a fragment of the fuselage was found with a 20 centimeter hole and fire damage, indicating a high-speed impact. At the time of the crash, a unit at nearby Magansk had fired anti-aircraft missiles in an exercise. Supposedly, the responsible missile had lost its intended target in a storm front before hitting the Tu-104.[2]
References
Specific
- ^ a b "Criminal occurrence description – Flight 902". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ^ "Accident of Tu-104A of the Far Eastern Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet near Krasnoyarsk". AirDisaster.ru. Archived from the original on 22 February 2020.
General
- Kasatkin, Vasiliy (17 April 2008). "Dangerous Sky (in Russian: Опасное небо)" (in Russian). Krasnoyarskiy Rabochiy (in Russian: Красноярский рабочий). Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
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