Criminal Occurrence description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 24 AUG 2004 |
| Time: | 22:53 |
| Type: | Tupolev 134A-3 |
| Operator: | Volga-Aviaexpress |
| Registration: | RA-65080 |
| C/n / msn: | 60065 |
| First flight: | 1977 |
| Engines: | 2 Soloviev D-30-III |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 35 / Occupants: 35 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 44 / Occupants: 44 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Buchalki (Russia)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Moskva-Domodedovo Airport (DME/UUDD), Russia |
| Volgograd Airport (VOG/URWW), Russia | |
| Flightnumber: | 1303 |
Flight 1303 departed Moscow about 22:30 for a flight to Volgograd. It crashed almost simultaneously with a Sibir Tupolev 154 which had also departed Domodedovo earlier that night. Traces of an explosive device were found in the wreckage. It appeared that the explosives had been carried aboard by a female passenger. Two female suicide bombers arrived at Moscow at 19:45 on the same day on a flight from Makhachkala in the company of another two Chechens. They had taken aside on arrival and were handed to a police captain in charge of antiterrorist precautions, but they were released without apparently having been searched. Both women then bought tickets on the Sibir flight to Sochi and the Volga-Aviaexpress to Volgograd from a black-market peddler. After bribing a Sibir Airlines employee in charge of check-in and boarding one of the women was able to bypass security and get on board the Tupolev 154.
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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 Moskva-Domodedovo Airport to Volgograd Airport as the crow flies is 851 km (532 miles).
Distance from Moskva-Domodedovo Airport to Volgograd Airport as the crow flies is 851 km (532 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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