| Date: | Thursday 23 September 1993 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Tupolev Tu-134A |
| Owner/operator: | Transair Georgia |
| Registration: | CCCP-65001 |
| MSN: | 42235 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 30 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Sukhumi-Babusheri Airport (SUI) -
 Georgia
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Sukhumi-Babusheri Airport (SUI/UGSS) |
| Tbilisi-Novo Alexeyevka Airport (TBS/UGGG) |
Passengers were boarding the aircraft when it was struck rockets fire by Abkhazian rebels from a BM-21 "Grad" rocket launcher. The Tupolev caught fire and burned out.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Scramble 172
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