| Date: | Thursday 13 October 1977 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40K |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, North Kavkaz Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-87948 |
| MSN: | 9621245 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2486 hours |
| Cycles: | 1704 flights |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 22 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Rostov Airport (ROV) -
 Russia
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Rostov Airport (ROV/URRR) |
| Nikolaev Airport (NLV/UKON) |
Shortly after takeoff from Rostov, the cargo hatch opened completely.
As seats 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B were fixed to the cargo hatch the three passengers sitting in those seats came hanging head down outside of the fuselage. A mother and her small son on seats 3B and 3A respectively slipped out of their seatbelts and fell to their death while a man on seat 2A managed to cling to his seat until the emergency landing.
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| 31 October 1979 | CCCP-87948 | Aeroflot, North Kavkaz Civil Aviation Directorate | 0 | 43 km from Tikhoretsk | |
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