Accident | |
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Date | 13 July 1963 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
Site | Near Irkutsk, USSR 52°15′12″N 104°26′14″E / 52.2533°N 104.4372°E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-104B |
Operator | Aeroflot |
Registration | СССР-42492 |
Flight origin | Beijing Capital International Airport, China |
Stopover | Irkutsk, USSR |
Destination | Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow USSR |
Passengers | 27 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 33 |
Survivors | 2 |
Aeroflot Flight 012 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Beijing, China to Moscow, Soviet Union on Saturday, July 13, 1963, which crashed on landing at a scheduled stopover in Irkutsk. 33 of the 35 people on board died in the crash.