| Date: | Wednesday 2 September 1970 |
| Time: | 15:37 |
| Type: |  Tupolev Tu-124 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Lithuania |
| Registration: | CCCP-45012 |
| MSN: | 1 35 04 02 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 37 / Occupants: 37 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Dnepropetrovsk -
 Ukraine
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Rostov Airport (ROV/URRR) |
| Vilnius Airport (VNO/EYVI) |
The Tu-124 jet took off from Rostov-na-Donu (ROV) at 14:55. The airplane climbed to 9000 m and reported over Dnepropetrovsk at 15:31.Shortly afterward the airplane lost control and crashed.
Sources:
airdisaster.ru
Soviet Transports
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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