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1986 Tu-134 crash in Samara

Aeroflot Flight 6502
Accident
An Aeroflot Tu-134A, similar to that involved in the accident
Date	20 October 1986 (1986-10-20)
Summary	Runway overrun due to pilot recklessness
Site	Kuibyshev Airport, Soviet Union 53°30′22″N 50°9′36″E / 53.50611°N 50.16000°E / 53.50611; 50.16000
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Tupolev Tu-134A
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-65766
Flight origin	Koltsovo Airport, Soviet Union
Stopover	Kuibyshev Airport, Soviet Union
Destination	Grozny Airport, Soviet Union
Occupants	94
Passengers	87
Crew	7
Fatalities	70
Survivors	24

Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A from Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) to Grozny via Kuibyshev (now Samara), which crashed in Kuibyshev on 20 October 1986. Seventy of the 94 passengers and crew on board were killed when the plane overran the runway, after the pilot made a bet that he could make an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows. Investigators determined the cause of the accident was pilot negligence.

Background

The crew of the Tu-134A aircraft, serial number 62327 manufactured on 28 June 1979, consisted of pilot in command Alexander Kliuyev, co-pilot Gennady Zhirnov, navigating officer Ivan Mokhonko, flight engineer Kyuri Khamzatov, and three flight attendants. Having departed from Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) and bound for Grozny, Flight 6502 had one stopover at Kurumoch Airport in Samara (then Kuibyshev).

Crash

While approaching Kurumoch Airport, Captain Kliuyev made a bet with First Officer Zhirnov that he could make an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows, thus having no visual contact with the ground, instead of an NDB approach, suggested by the air traffic control. Kliuyev further ignored the ground-proximity warning at an altitude of 62–65 metres (203–213 ft) and did not make the suggested go-around. The aircraft touched down on the runway at a speed of 150 knots (280 km/h; 170 mph) and came to rest upside down after overrunning the runway. Sixty-three people died during the accident and seven more in hospitals later. Among the passengers were 14 children, all of whom survived the accident. The top-secret report of the chairman of Kuibyshev oblispolkom V. A. Pogodin to Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov gave slightly different figures: Of 85 passengers and eight crew members aboard, 53 passengers and five crew members died in the crash and 11 more in hospitals later.

Though Zhirnov made no attempt to avert the crash, he subsequently tried to save the passengers and died of cardiac arrest while on the way to the hospital. Kliuyev was prosecuted and sentenced to 15 years in prison, later reduced to six years served.

References

^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-134A CCCP-65766 Kuybyshev Airport (KUF)". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
^ "Катастрофа Ту-134А Северо-Кавказского УГА в а/п Курумоч (Куйбышев)" [Accident of Tu-134A of the North-Caucasian CAA in the airport Kurumoch (Kuibyshev)] (in Russian). Airdisaster.ru. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
^ "Самая крупная катастрофа случилась в Самарском аэропорту в 1986 году" [The biggest disaster happened at Samara airport in 1986] (in Russian). RIA Samara. Archived from the original on 4 July 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
^ "Blind Landing on a Dare Killed Dozens, Paper Says: Soviets Disclose October Airliner Crash". Los Angeles Times. Reuters. 5 June 1987. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2013. Soviet Russia said the co-pilot died of heart failure while trying to rescue passengers.
Moonspell (4 January 2016). "Совершенно секретные фотографии авиакатастрофы в Самаре" [Top secret photos of a plane crash in Samara] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2016.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 1986 (1986)
Jan 18 Aerovías Caravelle crashJan 28 VASP Flight 210Jan 31 Aer Lingus Flight 328Feb 16 China Airlines Flight 2265Mar 2 Aeroflot Flight F-77Mar 31 Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940Apr 2 TWA Flight 840Apr 5 Ljósufjöll air crashApr 17 Hindawi affairMay 1 Ilopango Douglas DC-6 crashMay 3 Air Lanka Flight 512May 3 China Airlines Flight 334Jun 18 Grand Canyon National Park collisionJul 2 Aeroflot Flight 2306Aug 3 LIAT Flight 319Aug 16 Sudan Airways Fokker F-27 shootdownAug 31 Aeroméxico Flight 498Sep 5 Pan Am Flight 73Oct 5 Corporate Air Services HPF821Oct 19 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crashOct 20 Aeroflot Flight 6502Oct 26 Thai Airways International Flight 620Nov 6 British Int'l Helicopters Chinook crashNov 17 Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628Dec 12 Aeroflot Flight 892Dec 25 Iraqi Airways Flight 163
1985 ◄ ► 1987

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1986 (1986)

Jan 18 Aerovías Caravelle crashJan 28 VASP Flight 210Jan 31 Aer Lingus Flight 328Feb 16 China Airlines Flight 2265Mar 2 Aeroflot Flight F-77Mar 31 Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940Apr 2 TWA Flight 840Apr 5 Ljósufjöll air crashApr 17 Hindawi affairMay 1 Ilopango Douglas DC-6 crashMay 3 Air Lanka Flight 512May 3 China Airlines Flight 334Jun 18 Grand Canyon National Park collisionJul 2 Aeroflot Flight 2306Aug 3 LIAT Flight 319Aug 16 Sudan Airways Fokker F-27 shootdownAug 31 Aeroméxico Flight 498Sep 5 Pan Am Flight 73Oct 5 Corporate Air Services HPF821Oct 19 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crashOct 20 Aeroflot Flight 6502Oct 26 Thai Airways International Flight 620Nov 6 British Int'l Helicopters Chinook crashNov 17 Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628Dec 12 Aeroflot Flight 892Dec 25 Iraqi Airways Flight 163

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 1990s
1980	Aeroflot Flight Sh-88 (June 1980) Aeroflot Flight 4225 (July 1980)
1981	Pushkin Tu-104 crash (February 1981) Aeroflot Flight 498 (June 1981) Armenia mid-air collision (July 1981) Aeroflot Flight 811 (August 1981) Zheleznogorsk mid-air collision (September 1981) Aeroflot Flight 3603 (November 1981)
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1983	Aeroflot Flight E-46 (April 1983) Aeroflot Flight 5463 (August 1983) Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (September 1983) Aeroflot Flight 601 (December 1983)
1984	Aeroflot Flight 3352 (October 1984) Aeroflot Flight 3519 (December 1984)
1985	Aeroflot Flight 7841 (February 1985) Zolochiv mid-air collision (May 1985) Aeroflot Flight 5143 (July 1985) Aeroflot Flight 101/435 (December 1985)
1986	Aeroflot Flight F-77 (March 1986) Aeroflot Flight 2306 (July 1986) Aeroflot Flight 6502 (October 1986)
1987	Aeroflot Flight N-528 (June 1987) Aeroflot Flight U-505 (July 1987)
1988	Aeroflot Flight 699 (18 January 1988) Aeroflot Flight 29674 (24 January 1988) Aeroflot Flight 3739 (March 1988) Soviet Air Force Il-76 crash (December 1988)
1989	Soviet Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 crash (October 1989) Aeroflot Flight 37577 (November 1989)
1990	Aeroflot Flight 6246 (January 1990) Navoiy Aeroflot An-24 crash (March 1990)
1991	Aeroflot Flight 8556 (May 1991) Yugavia Flight S-519 (7 November 1991) Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown (20 November 1991)
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