| Date: | Saturday 24 September 1988 |
| Time: | 14:26 |
| Type: |  Tupolev Tu-154B-2 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Armenia |
| Registration: | CCCP-85479 |
| MSN: | 81A479 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Engine model: | Kuznetsov NK-8-2U |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 168 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Aleppo Airport (ALP) -
 Syria
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Yerevan Airport (EVN/UDYZ) |
| Aleppo-Nejrab Airport (ALP/OSAP) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
The aircraft landed hard following an unstabilized visual approach in light turbulence. The gear collapsed and the aircraft overran the runway.
The centre of gravity was out of limits and the crew had manually set the aircraft out of trim.
Sources:
ICAO Adrep Summary 1/89 (#33)
Soviet Transports
Location
Images:
photo (c) Hakob; Aleppo Airport (ALP); 24 September 1988
photo (c) Hakob; Aleppo Airport (ALP); 24 September 1988
photo (c) Dietrich Eggert; Berlin-Schönefeld Airport (SXF/EDDB); April 1981
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