Aeroflot Flight 418

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Aeroflot Flight 418
Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 - CCCP-85219.jpg
An Aeroflot Tu-154 similar to the one involved in the accident (1978)
Accident summary
Date 1 June 1976
Summary Controlled flight into terrain[dubious – discuss]
Site Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
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Passengers 42
Crew 4
Fatalities 46
Aircraft type Tupolev Tu-154A
Operator Aeroflot
Registration CCCP-85102
Flight origin Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda, Angola
Destination Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia

Aeroflot Flight 418 refers to a Tupolev Tu-154A, registration CCCP-85102, that was operating the first leg of an international scheduled Luanda–Malabo–Kinshasa–Tripoli–Moscow passenger service under the airline's International Civil Aviation Directorate, and crashed on 1976-6-1.[1]

Description

The aircraft was en route from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport to Malabo International Airport, when it struck a mountain 750 metres (2,460 ft) high at Bioko, Equatorial Guinea.[1] Initial reports claiming that there were 46 people aboard were later confirmed, with the aircraft actually having 42 passengers and a crew of four on board; all of them perished in the accident.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 7 September 2011.
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  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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