ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev Yak-40 CCCP-87825 Zaporozhye Airport (OZH)
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Date:Tuesday 28 January 1975
Type:Silhouette image of generic YK40 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Yakovlev Yak-40
Operator:Aeroflot / Ukraine
Registration: CCCP-87825
MSN: 9241724
First flight: 1972
Engines: 3 Ivchenko AI-25
Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 14
Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 17
Aircraft damage: Damaged beyond repair
Location:Zaporozhye Airport (OZH) (   Ukraine)
Phase: Takeoff (TOF)
Nature:Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:Zaporozhye Airport (OZH/UKDE), Ukraine
Destination airport:Ternopil Airport (TNL/UKLT), Ukraine
Narrative:
The Yak-40 passenger plane was cleared of snow prior to departure. However the wings were quickly covered with snow because of continuing snowfall. During run up the snow was blown off the right hand wing.
Immediately after lift off the airplane banked left, causing the left hand main gear to touch down again. The crew decided to abort the takeoff, but the aircraft overran the runway and the left wing collided with the building of a meteorological post, located 25 metres behind the runway threshold.

Classification:
Icing
Rejected takeoff
Loss of control

Sources:
» Soviet Transports
» airdisaster.ru


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Distance from Zaporozhye Airport to Ternopil Airport as the crow flies is 724 km (452 miles).

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.
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