ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325192
| Date: | Saturday 28 August 1993 |
| Time: | 10:46 |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40 |
| Owner/operator: | Tajikistan Airlines |
| Registration: | 87995 |
| MSN: | 9541944 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 82 / Occupants: 86 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | near Khorog -
 Tajikistan
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Khorog Airport (UTOD) |
| Dushanbe Airport (DYU/UTDD) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
A Yakovlev 40 passenger jet was destroyed when it crashed on takeoff from Khorog Airport, Tajikistan. All five crew members and 77 of the 81 passengers were killed.
The Yakovlev 40, configured to carry 28 passengers, was chartered to fly woman, children and militants to Dushanbe during the Tajikistani Civil War. The crew were forced into accepting more passengers, causing the plane to be grossly overloaded.
The aircraft overran the runway at high speed. The left main gear struck a low earth embankment, 150 m beyond the runway end. The right gear struck a concrete pill-box 60 m further. The aircraft then fell into the River Pyanj.
The maximum takeoff weight was exceeded by 3,000 kg.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
ICAO Adrep Summary 3/94 (#109)
Scramble 172
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