Tag: 88 Fatalities Aviation Accident
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On This Day In 2008: Aeroflot Flight 821 spiraled into a railway line near Perm, killing all 88 aboard after the crew became dangerously disoriented during approach.
On September 14, 2008, Aeroflot-Nord Flight 821 was approaching Perm International Airport after a night flight from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. The Boeing 737-505, registration VP-BKO, carried 82 passengers and six crew members. At about 5:10 a.m. local time, the aircraft disappeared from radar and crashed on the outskirts of Perm, near the Trans-Siberian Railway. There…
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