| Date: | Friday 16 January 1987 |
| Time: | 08:11 |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Uzbekistan |
| Registration: | CCCP-87618 |
| MSN: | 9131918 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1971 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 17132 hours |
| Cycles: | 20927 flights |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport (TAS) -
 Uzbekistan
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport (TAS/UTTT) |
| Shahrisabz Airport (UTSH) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
The Yak-40 banked sharply to the left after takeoff, struck ground, broke up and caught fire.
The aircraft took off 1 min 16 seconds after an Ilyushin Il-76 (CCCP-76482), encountering its wake vortex.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
ICAO Adrep Summary 1/88 (#51)
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