| Date: | Tuesday 21 September 1993 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Tupolev Tu-134A |
| Owner/operator: | Transair Georgia |
| Registration: | 65893 |
| MSN: | 5340120 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 27 / Occupants: 27 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Sukhumi-Babusheri Airport (SUI) -
 Georgia
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Adler/Sochi Airport (AER/URSS) |
| Sukhumi-Babusheri Airport (SUI/UGSS) |
The Tupolev was fired at with a heat seeking "Strela-2" shoulder-fired SAM by Abkhazi separatist forces, using a patrol boat. The aircraft lost control and crashed into the sea from a height of 300 m.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Air International
Scramble 176
Location
Images:
photo (c) Alain Durand; Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO/UUWW); 05 June 1992
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