Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 15 JUL 1975 |
| Time: | 12:34 |
| Type: | Yakovlev 40 |
| Operator: | Aeroflot / Armenia |
| Registration: | CCCP-87475 |
| C/n / msn: | 9442037 |
| First flight: | 1974 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1244 |
| Cycles: | 1151 |
| Engines: | 3 Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 35 / Occupants: 35 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 40 / Occupants: 40 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 18 km (11.3 mls) E of Batumi-Chorokh Airport (BUS) (Georgia)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Yerevan-Zvartnots Airport (EVN/UDYZ), Armenia |
| Batumi-Chorokh Airport (BUS/UGSB), Georgia | |
| Flightnumber: | E-15 |
Struck Mount Mtirala while performing a go-around. The weather at Batumi was poor and the weather conditions reported to the crew did not correspond to the actual conditions encoutered during the approach. Visibility was 3000 m instead of 5000 m as reported.
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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 Yerevan-Zvartnots Airport to Batumi-Chorokh Airport as the crow flies is 284 km (177 miles).
Distance from Yerevan-Zvartnots Airport to Batumi-Chorokh Airport as the crow flies is 284 km (177 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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