Part 106: Russia

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This plane crash takes us to the country of Russia, which is located next to the following countries: Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Poland and North Korea.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

Pictured above is a similar type of plane tat was involved in this crash

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Pictured above is a similar type of plane tat was involved in this crash.

Aeroflot Flight 3352, registered as Charlie Charlie Charlie Papa- 85243 (CCCP-85243), was a Tupolev Tu-154 airline flight on a domestic passenger route from Krasnodar International Airport (IATA: KRR, ICAO: URKK), Krasnodar, Russia to Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (IATA: OVB, ICAO: UNNT), Novosibirsk, Russia, the flight had an intermediate stopover at Omsk Airport (IATA: OMS, ICAO: UNOO), Omsk, Russia, while the plane was landing at Omsk Airport on Thursday the 11th of October 1984, the aircraft crashed into maintenance vehicles on the runway, the crash killed 174 people out of the 179 people who were on board the plane and the crash also killed 4 people on the ground (178 in total), as of 2023 the crash remains the deadliest aviation accident on Russian territory and it's the second deadliest accident involving a Tupolev Tu-154.

(The deadliest involving the Tupolev Tu-154 was the crash of Aeroflot Flight 5143, that crashed nine months after this crash, the cause of that crash was a Stall due to pilot fatigue and pilot error, all 200 people on board the flight were killed in that crash) .

At 5:38am local time, the plane passed the lowest height at which the flight crew could abort the landing, the aircraft landed at a normal 240 kilometres per hour, on touchdown the crew saw the array of drying vehicles and they attempted to turn the aircraft but they were unable to avoid the collision, the plane crashed into a Ural Truck that was on the runway and then 200 meters (660 feet) down the runway it crashed into a KrAZ vehicle that was also on the runway, this collision ignited the 7 tons of fuel in each truck and the aircraft fuel tank's, the plane overturned and broke into pieces, some of which crashed into a UAZ-469 vehicle that was also on the runway, a catastrophic fracture of the fuel tanks caused muring fuel to leak into the fuselage, incinerating all but one passenger, the cockpit section detached and flew past the burning vehicles, the cockpit section suffered no major damage, all four crew members survived, they escaped from the cockpit and ran to the crash site to help passengers, only one passenger survived, the passenger lost their right leg in the accident, four ground crew members were killed instantly, one person in the UAZ caught on fire, which was extinguished and they survived.

The summary of the crash was a Runway incursion due to ATC error.

Below is a video which explains what happened that night, video credit goes to The Flight Channel on Youtube.

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