Aeroflot Flight 418

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
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 ]
Site Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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 LuandaMalaboKinshasaTripoli–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.
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.