| Date: | Saturday 2 September 1989 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Kyrgyzstan |
| Registration: | CCCP-87509 |
| MSN: | 9521140 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 43 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bishkek Airport (FRU) -
 Kyrgyzstan
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Przhevalsk Airport |
| Frunze Airport (FRU/UAFM) |
The aircraft suffered a hydraulics failure while en route to Frunze (now Bishkek). The landing gear could not be lowered, forcing the crew to carry out a wheels-up landing on the grass at Frunze. The aircraft suffered substantial damage but all 3 crew and 40 passengers escaped unhurt.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
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