| Date: | Tuesday 28 October 1980 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Antonov An-12B |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, International Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-11104 |
| MSN: | 01347710 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1971 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 19130 hours |
| Cycles: | 6217 flights |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-20M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 25 km SE of Kabul Airport (KBL) -
 Afghanistan
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport (TAS/UTTT) |
| Kabul Airport (KBL/OAKB) |
Aeroflot flight 1531 departed Sofia on a flight to Kabul with intermediate stops at Mineralnye Vody and Tashkent. On the last leg of the flight, while on approach to Kabul, the crew descended below minimum safe altitude in poor weather. The An-12 crashed into Mount Wais-e Qarni Baba.
The wreck was located November 4, 1980.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport (AMS); May 1975
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