Aeroflot Flight 8175
aviation accident
Aeroflot Flight 8175 was a scheduled passenger flight from Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast , to Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast. On 14 September 1990, the plane struck trees and broke up in a wooded area, killing four on board. The aircraft stopped 381 m from the point of the first contact with obstacles. The fuselage broke in two between frames 31 and 32, with the front section turning 51° relative to the rear section. In the area of frame 10, the fuselage was deformed with a deviation of the pilot's cabin to the left by 2-3° from the aircraft axis. Part of the tail and engine #2 separated.
The accident was officially reported by Russian president Boris Yeltsin himself to the Russian Parliament.
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Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a Yakovlev Yak-42, manufactured in 1988 and registered as CCCP-42351. It was powered by Lotarev D-36 engines. Before the incident, the plane had acquired 4509 hours of airframe with 2824 cycles.
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