| Date: | Saturday 15 April 1995 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Tupolev Tu-134A-3 |
| Owner/operator: | Imperial Air |
| Registration: | OB-1553 |
| MSN: | 60206 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1977 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 73 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Lima-J Chavez International Airport (LIM) -
 Peru
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Cuzco-Velazco Astete Airport (CUZ/SPZO) |
| Lima-Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM/SPIM) |
Tyre failure after departure from Cuzco. The crew decided to continue to Lima but the left main gear would not extend. A landing was performed with this landing gear leg retracted.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Airclaims
Scramble 196 (p.61)
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Lima-J Chavez International Airport (LIM); January 1994
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