Date:	Monday 24 August 1981
Time:	15:21
Type:	Antonov An-24RV
Owner/operator:	Aeroflot, Far East Civil Aviation Directorate
Registration:	CCCP-46653
MSN:	47309204
Year of manufacture:	1974
Total airframe hrs:	12828 hours
Cycles:	8397 flights
Engine model:	Ivchenko AI-24VT
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 31 / Occupants: 32
Other fatalities:	6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	70 km E of Zavitinsk -   Russia
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Komsomol'sk-na-Amure Airport (KXK/UHKK)
Destination airport:	Blagoveshchensk Airport (BQS/UHBB)

Narrative:
Antonov 24 CCCP-46653 operated on a domestic passenger flight from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport (UUS) to Blagoveshchensk Airport (BQS) via Komsomol'sk-na-Amure Airport (KXK). The flight had departed Komsomol'sk-na-Amure at 07:56 and was en route to Blagoveshchensk at FL170 when it collided in mid air with a Soviet Air Force Tupolev 16K (msn 6203106).
The Antonov disintegrated and crashed. One passenger, 20 year old Larissa Savizkaja survived the crash and was found in a forest 3 days later. The Tupolev, which acted as a support aircraft for two military weather research planes, also crashed.

The collision was said to have been caused by poor coordination between the civilian and military air traffic controllers.

Soviet Transports
Dmitriy Yertsov
Focus 3/2001 (p. 186-187)
World Directory of Airliner Crashes

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