ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328773
| Date: | Monday 2 October 1978 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, Privolzhsk Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-87544 |
| MSN: | 9530942 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 30 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Tbilisi Airport (TBS) -
 Georgia
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Volgograd Airport (VOG/URWW) |
| Tbilisi Airport (TBS/UGGG) |
The hydraulic system of the Yak-40 failed during a night-time flight to Tbilisi (TBS). The crew were only able to lower the undercarriage and carried out a flapless landing. They touched down at a speed of 250 km/h (135 kts) and overran the end of the runway at a speed of 165 km/h (89 knots). It hit a concrete mast and broke in three.
The flight originated in Ulyanovsk.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Scramble 362
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