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Tupolev Tu-124V accident report

Monday 8 March 1965 Aeroflot Tu-124V CCCP-45028 c/n 2350803

DSP Flight SU513 from Kuybyshev (KUF) / Samara to Rostov (ROV) with 9 crew and 30 passengers. Shortly after take-off the airplane attained a high angle of attack, stalled and crashed 2300m passed the runway end. Could have been caused by failing attitude indicators. Other possibility it was tail heavy. YOM : 1962

Airframe hrs : 1612 cycles : 1151 engines : Soloviev D-20P 30 people died in the crash and 9 seriously injured.

location : near Kuybyshev airport (now called Kurumoch airport ), Samara +-200m 53°14’25”N 50°22’25”E

Wednesday 10 November 1965 Aeroflot Tu-124V CCCP-45086 c/n 5351801

DSP Flight SU99 from Leningrad (LED) to Murmansk with 5 crew and 59 passengers. YOM : 1965. Approach in bad weather with strong snow squall. Descended to low and crashed on the ice-covered lake Kilp-Yavr, 1.5km short of the runway.

Airframe hrs : 357 cycles : 300 engines : Soloviev D-20P 32 people died in the crash.

location : +- 200m 69°06’45”N 32°26’51”E

Wednesday 29 August 1979 Aeroflot Tu-124V CCCP-45038 c/n 3351003

Flight from Kiev-Borispol apt (KBP) to Kazan apt. with 5 crew and 58 passengers.

While cruising by night at an altitude of 9,000 meters and a speed of 530 km/h, the flaps extended to an angle of 30°. The airplane entered a spin and partially disintegrated at an altitude of 4,000 meters before crashing on a on a meadow in the floodplain of the Vorona river near 1-ya Inokovka village in the Kirsanov district of the Tambov region.

YOM : 1963. Airframe hrs : 23232 cycles : 18369 engines : Soloviev D-20P. All people on board died in the crash. After this accident the Tu-124V was withdrawn from passenger service. location : near Kirsanov +- 1km N52°31'30" E42°36'00"