Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 25 DEC 1979 |
| Time: | 19:33 |
| Type: |  Ilyushin 76M |
| Operator: | Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | CCCP-86036 |
| C/n / msn: | 093416500 ? |
| First flight: | 1979 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 34 / Occupants: 34 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 43 / Occupants: 43 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 36 km (22.5 mls) from Kabul (Afghanistan)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport (TAS/UTTT), Uzbekistan |
| Bagram Air Base (BPM/OAIX), Afghanistan |
The Ilyushin transport plane struck the top of a mountain at a height of about 5000 m during a descent at night. The crew were approaching an unfamiliar airfield (Bagram AFB) with the absence of navigation equipment on the ground. Onboard there were paratroopers of the Vitebsk division, which were transferred to Kabul on the first day of invasion of the Soviet army to Afghanistan.
Events:
Sources:
» Scramble 275
» Scramble 253
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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 Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport to Bagram Air Base as the crow flies is 697 km (436 miles).
Distance from Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport to Bagram Air Base as the crow flies is 697 km (436 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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