Accident description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 01 AUG 1990 |
| Time: | 11:10 |
| Type: | Yakovlev 40 |
| Operator: | Aeroflot / Armenia |
| Registration: | CCCP-87453 |
| C/n / msn: | 9431036 |
| First flight: | 1974 |
| Engines: | 3 Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 43 / Occupants: 43 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 46 / Occupants: 46 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 22 km (13.8 mls) W of Stepanakert (Azerbaijan)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Yerevan-Zvartnots Airport (EVN/UDYZ), Armenia |
| Stepanakert Airport, Azerbaijan |
The Yakovlev 40 struck a cloud covered hill at an altitude of 2520m.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Premature descent.
Sources:
» Soviet Transports
» ICAO Adrep Summary 3/91 (#32)
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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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