Tag: Tupolev Tu-154
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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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When a Passenger Jet and a Cargo Plane Collided at 35,000 Feet-And 71 Lives Were Lost-The Disaster That Changed Aviation Forever
Today in 2002: The Mid-Air Collision That Changed Aviation Forever — Opposite Safety Warnings Led to a Tragedy That Claimed 71 Lives On the night of July 1, 2002, one of the deadliest and most influential mid-air collisions in aviation history unfolded above the quiet German town of Überlingen, near Lake Constance. In a disaster…
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