Narrative:
A Tu-134 was loaded at Murmansk Airport when a suitcase containing a bleaching agent was dropped in the rear luggage compartment with such a force that the bleaching agent was set free and a fire broke out. The aircraft burned out.
Damaged on the ground
| Status: | |
| Date: | Saturday 8 July 1972 |
| Type: |  Tupolev Tu-134 |
| Operator: | Aeroflot, Northern Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-65604 |
| MSN: | 6350101 |
| First flight: | 1967 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5867 |
| Cycles: | 3655 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Aircraft fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Murmansk Airport (MMK) ( Russia)
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| Phase: | Standing (STD) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Murmansk Airport (MMK/ULMM), Russia |
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A Tu-134 was loaded at Murmansk Airport when a suitcase containing a bleaching agent was dropped in the rear luggage compartment with such a force that the bleaching agent was set free and a fire broke out. The aircraft burned out.
Classification:
Cargo fire/smokeDamaged on the ground
Sources:
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