ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev Yak-40 CCCP-87618 Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport (TAS)
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Status:Information verified through authorities or other official sources.
Date:Friday 16 January 1987
Time:08:11
Type:Silhouette image of generic YK40 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Yakovlev Yak-40
Operator:Aeroflot / Uzbekistan
Registration: CCCP-87618
MSN: 9131918
First flight: 1971
Total airframe hrs:17132
Cycles:20927
Engines: 3 Ivchenko AI-25
Crew:Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Passengers:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Total:Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport (TAS) (   Uzbekistan)
Crash site elevation: 432 m (1417 feet) amsl
Phase: Takeoff (TOF)
Nature:Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport (TAS/UTTT), Uzbekistan
Destination airport:Shahrisabz Airport (UTSH), Uzbekistan
Flightnumber: 505
Narrative:
The Yak-40 banked sharply to the left after takeoff, struck ground, broke up and caught fire.
The aircraft took off 1 min 16 seconds after an Ilyushin Il-76 (CCCP-76482), encountering its wake vortex.

Classification:
Weather: Wake vortex encounter
Loss of control

Sources:
» Soviet Transports
» ICAO Adrep Summary 1/88 (#51)


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Distance from Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport to Shahrisabz Airport as the crow flies is 324 km (203 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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