Hijacking description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 24 APR 1973 |
| Type: | Tupolev 104B |
| Operator: | Aeroflot, Northern Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-42505 |
| C/n / msn: | 021903 |
| First flight: | 1960 |
| Engines: | 2 Mikulin AM-3M-500 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Leningrad (Russia)
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Leningrad-Shosseynaya Airport (LED/ULLI), Russia |
| Moskva (unknown airport), Russia |
Flight engineer and hijacker killed when device held by the hijacker exploded. A hole was blown in the right side of the fuselage; the aircraft landed safely.
Sources:
» Soviet Transports
» Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
