Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 28 JAN 1975 |
| Type: | Yakovlev 40 |
| Operator: | Aeroflot / Ukraine |
| Registration: | CCCP-87825 |
| C/n / msn: | 9241724 |
| First flight: | 1972 |
| Engines: | 3 Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Zaporozhye Airport (OZH) (Ukraine)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Zaporozhye Airport (OZH/UKDE), Ukraine |
| Ternopol Airport (TNL/UKLT), Ukraine |
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 blowf off the right hand wing.
Immediately after lift off the airplane banked left and crash-landed next to the runway.
Events:
Sources:
» Soviet Transports
» airdisaster.ru
Photos
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Zaporozhye Airport to Ternopol Airport as the crow flies is 724 km (452 miles).
Distance from Zaporozhye Airport to Ternopol 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.
