Tag: Soviet Union Plane Crash
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On This Day in 1984: Aeroflot Tu-154 Crashed Into Runway Maintenance Trucks After Sleeping Controller Failed to Clear the Runway, Killing 178; Investigation Exposed Negligence, ATC Failure and Major Airport Safety Violations
On October 11, 1984, Aeroflot Flight 3352, a Tupolev Tu-154B-1 registered CCCP-85243, was approaching Omsk Airport in the Soviet Union during a scheduled domestic journey from Krasnodar to Novosibirsk. The aircraft carried 170 passengers and nine crew members. What should have been a routine stopover turned into a catastrophe because maintenance vehicles were occupying the…
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