| Date: | Tuesday 15 July 1975 |
| Time: | 12:34 |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Armenia |
| Registration: | CCCP-87475 |
| MSN: | 9442037 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1244 hours |
| Cycles: | 1151 flights |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 40 / Occupants: 40 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 18 km E of Batumi-Chorokh Airport (BUS) -
 Georgia
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Yerevan-Zvartnots Airport (EVN/UDYZ) |
| Batumi-Chorokh Airport (BUS/UGSB) |
Struck Mount Mtirala while performing a go-around. The weather at Batumi was poor and the weather conditions reported to the crew did not correspond to the actual conditions encountered during the approach. Visibility was 3000 m instead of 5000 m as reported.
Sources:
airdisaster.ru
Soviet Transports
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