Date: | Friday 5 June 1992 |
Time: | |
Type: | Tupolev Tu-154B |
Owner/operator: | Balkan Bulgarian Airlines |
Registration: | LZ-BTD |
MSN: | 74A058 |
Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
Engine model: | Kuznetsov NK-8-2U |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 130 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Varna Airport (VAR) -
Bulgaria
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN/ESSA) |
Destination airport: | Varna Airport (VAR/LBWN) |
Narrative:A Tupolev 154B passenger plane, registered LZ-BTD, sustained substantial damage in a landing accident at Varna Airport (VAR), Bulgaria. All 130 on board survived.
The airplane was arriving on a charter flight from Sweden in strong winds and heavy rainfall. The airplane touched down late on runway 27 and ran off the runway, causing the nose landing gear to collapse.
Sources:
Patrick af Klercker (E-mail, 6-8-2012)
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Soviet Transports Location
Images:
photo (c) Harro Ranter; Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport (AMS); 02 January 1991; (CC:by-nc-nd)
photo (c) Niall Moran; Dublin Airport (DUB/EIDW); July 1976
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