Date:	Wednesday 19 February 1958
Time:
Type:	Tupolev Tu-104
Owner/operator:	Aeroflot, LUTTs
Registration:	CCCP-L5414
MSN:	6350101
Year of manufacture:	1956
Engine model:	Mikulin AM-3
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	1,5 km from Savasleika Air Base -   Russia
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Sverdlovsk-Koltsovo Airport (SVX/USSS)
Destination airport:	Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO/UUWW)

Narrative:
The Tu-104 was on a ferry flight to Vnukovo (VNO) when bad weather forced the crew to divert to Savasleika Air Base due to bad weather at Vnukovo. It ran out of fuel on the second approach and made a forced landing in a forest 1,500 m from the runway threshold.

Soviet Transports
Jet-Airliner Unfälle seit 1952 / J. Richter, Chr. Wolf

photo (c) Dr. Peter Moys archive, via Miklos SZABO; Budapest-Ferihegy Airport (BUD); 25 June 1956

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