July 1, 2002: A Russian Tu-154 collides in midair with a Boeing 757 cargo plane over southern Germany. The 69 passengers and crew on the Russian plane and the two-person cargo crew are feared dead.
October 4, 2001: A Siber Airlines Tupelov 154 flight carrying 77 people on board exploded and crashed into the Black Sea during a flight between Israel
July 4, 2001: A Tu-154 Russian passenger plane crashed and burst into flames in Siberia, killing all 143 people on board, officials said
October 25, 2000: An Ilyushin-18 military plane flying from Russia crashes on a Georgian mountainside, killing 82 people.
November 11, 1998: Thirteen people are killed when an An-12 crashed on takeoff from Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.
December 6, 1997: Forty-eight people are killed when their Antonov-124, carrying two Sukhoi fighter planes, crashes into a residential area on the outskirts of Irkutsk in Siberia.
March 18, 1997: Fifty passengers and crew die when the tail of their An-24 charter plane breaks off in mid-air while en route for Turkey.
December 17, 1996: Seventeen people including commander of the Leningrad military district are killed when their military plane, an Antonov-12, crashes at an airfield near the city of Pskov in northwestern Russia.
November 28, 1996: Russian air force Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashes in Siberia, killing all 23 people on board.
November 14, 1996: Thirteen people are killed when an antiquated Antonov An-2 biplane crashes in the semi-autonomous region of Komi in northern Russia.
August 29, 1996: A Tu-154 passenger plane carrying Russian and Ukrainian miners and their families to work on Norway’s Arctic island of Spitzbergen crashes into a mountaintop, killing all 143 people on board.
December 7, 1995: A Tu-154 with 97 people aboard disappears en route to the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk. No survivors were ever found.
June 16, 1995: At least 12 people are killed when their Antonov An-2 single-engined propeller plane crashes in bad weather in Russia’s Far East on a flight from Poliny Osipenko, in the Khabarovsk region, to the city of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur.
April 8, 1995: An Il-76 plane crashes on the slopes of a volcano just before it is due to land at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, regional capital of the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula. All 14 people on board are killed.
October 29, 1994: Twenty-one people die when an Antonov An-12 cargo plane crashes on approach near the airport of Ust-Ilimsk, 385 miles north of the Siberian city of Irkutsk.
September 26, 1994: A Russian Yak-40 airliner crashes while trying to reach an airport at Vanavara, Siberia, to make an emergency landing in bad weather. All 26 people aboard are killed.
March 23, 1994: A half-empty Airbus A-310 belonging to Russian state international airline Aeroflot crashes near Novokuznetsk, killing 70 people. Investigators say crash was caused mainly by the pilot’s teenage son inadvertently disconnecting the autopilot.
January 3, 1994: All 124 people on board a Russian Tupolev-154 plane are killed when it crashes minutes after taking off from the Siberian city of Irkutsk on a flight to Moscow.
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quite a bad record….
By: keltic - 12th July 2002 at 21:52
RE: A list of major Russian ai
I am not very fond of accident lists since they usually include accidents happened due to different aspects and many times not related or in which the machine itself is not responsible. Normally these lists doesn´t prove anything. As Kabir says, maintenance is a key factor, not aircraft type. In the case of the TU-154 usually has to fly in very poor conditions, in countries where there are many limitations (weather, maintenance, orography, faulty equiped airports), in airlines which submit them to extreme levels of safety, so it´s pretty normal this high degree of accidents.
By: KabirT - 9th July 2002 at 09:05
RE: A list of major Russian ai
i agree GD1…the IL 96 is a great a/c….too bad most cointries ignore Russian aircrafts.
By: greekdude1 - 9th July 2002 at 00:43
RE: A list of major Russian aircrashes….
Look at the IL-96. That is a great piece of technology, unlike it’s predecesor the IL-86. Especially the IL-96M with the Pratt&Whitney’s. It’s a shame that only so few have been built.
GD1
By: KabirT - 8th July 2002 at 16:02
RE: A list of major Russian aircrashes….
I agree with Saab…maintanence is the key. An aircraft never grows old, you keep it maintained it will go on forever. Even if you dont maintain a Boeing or an Airbus properly, they can also cause an accident. Agreed that Russian aircrafts arnet the best in technology etc, but they are not as bad as people think too, otherwise they wont be flying.
By: Saab 2000 - 8th July 2002 at 15:37
RE: A list of major Russian aircrashes….
The Russian aircraft are used in mainly in countries which are starved for money after the collapse of the USSR so the airlines cannont afford the money to maintain their aircraft in the proper condition.This is a factor as to why you see so many crashes of Russian built aircraft.This gives them a bad impression in the west though its most of the time nothing to do with the care taken while they are being built.The TU-204 is a beautiful aircraft,looks like the a cross between the A320 family and the 757,you can see the quality on that aircraft though if its not maintained properly then disasterous events happen.
By: KabirT - 8th July 2002 at 13:00
RE: A list of major Russian aircrashes….
Ilyushin, Tu etc. CAN be as good companies as Boeing and AI if Russia pays more attention and devote more hard work and money in the civil aviation sector. TU prooved there quality with the TU 204, a good mix of Russian and western technology. Russia can really do well in civil aviation if they want. Well then again thats my opinion.
By: T5 - 8th July 2002 at 11:28
RE: A list of major Russian aircrashes….
Great collation of events Kabir, thanks. Do you think Tupolev, Antonov, Yakolev etc are more unreliable than aircraft made by Boeing or Airbus or do you think it’s just coincidence that these aircraft are more frequently involved in accidents?
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