ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324207
| Date: | Thursday 15 May 1997 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40 |
| Owner/operator: | Azerbaijan Airlines |
| Registration: | 4K-87504 |
| MSN: | 9510640 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 5,2 km from Gyandzha Airport (KVD) -
 Azerbaijan
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Gyandzha Airport (KVD/UBBG) |
| Gyandzha Airport (KVD/UBBG) |
A number of Azerbaijani soldiers were returning to camp after a small arms practice and had begun shooting at a road sign. At the same time a Yakovlev 40 was returning from a training flight and overflew the area. A number of stray bullets struck the Yak and hit an oxygen cylinder. A fire broke out and control was lost. The aircraft crashed 5160 m short of the runway, 95 m left of the extended centerline.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
AFP
Airclaims
Black Sea Press
Tommy Maurer
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